Originally Posted by
gipple
The USPS (a quasi-governmental agency) is bleeding money. Business is down by nearly 20% since 2006. Have they let one GED educated employee go? Have they cut one dime in cost? Instead they are going to raise prices and cut service. A private company would be out of business in a second with strategy like that.
No sour grapes here.
The USPS wants to cut services and close down some post offices, but Congress won't let them. Congress believes that the USPS provides a communication service that should be accessible to everyone regardless of its profitability. It is sort of like the EAS.