Quote Originally Posted by Drucker View Post
The Postal Service is a lot of things but The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters

And to beat the drum some more, the USPS delivers over 200bllion items year, compared to UPS 4billion and Fedx 1.5billion.
So rag on them all you want
Bullshit.

The USPS has been in a deficit for years to the tune of billions. They lost $5 billion last year alone. The only reason it's still operating is the Federal govt.

Most of what the USPS delivers to me is junk mail. They obviously don't charge enough for the 50-100 lbs. of it that I get every year. They deliver garbage (...and then I pay Waste Management to take it away). They keep increasing the cost of 1st class postage to stem the flow, but they're just encouraging the citizenry to find a cheaper way and the USPS continues to reduce their revenue (it's a disincentive, like higher taxes). They could charge more for bulk mail and make more money for moving less volume, but then they wouldn't need so much infrastructure to move the profitable mail around. That won't happen, because they wouldn't need as many personnel and the union just can't have that.

Hey, I'm not surprised, this is yet another failure of the Executive branch of the Federal govt. under Obama.