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This is really the time to propose not the elimination but the gutting (personnel-wise) of the U.S. Postal Service. Instead of the kind of feet on the street delivery service, such as it is now, the Post Office should provide an email account, email machine and printer for each household in the country. The cost of this would be huge in total but the unit cost per home would be peanuts. The debt service and operating costs of this delivery system would be paid by a user fee for each piece of mail - limited to 5 cents per missive and paid by the sender.

The mail and delivery would be encrypted, etc. for security purposes - use of the receiver would be by finger-print, eye scan, whatever. Now is the time for a clinical discussion of the costs and benefits which would derive from such a system. I realize that a lot of the political whores in congress and elsewhere would scream because of the labor issues and the unions but it is the only logical system to replace the antiquated, labor intensive and eternally escalating system we have now. For the record, I have given up drugs.

the Post Office should provide an email account, email machine and printer for each household in the country... paid by a user fee for each piece of mail - limited to 5 cents per missive and paid by the sender.

Did you get this idea from an e-mail?

the Post Office should provide an email account, email machine and printer for each household in the country
What purpose does this serve? Won't intelligent (that is, people that want anthrax delivered to them cross country in less than 3 weeks) move to it by themselves? Why get the .gov involved in yet another project that they shouldn't be doing.
And as a note: my apartment building's mail box was hit by a car on Friday. At 10PM a USPS truck pulls up to take it away. I call the cops as there was no notice and then get a quick call back from a USPS mechanic saying that they are fixing it. 5 days later still no mailbox and we have to go to the local PO.