re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

Whose brilliant idea was all this bullshit anyway? Why can’t the President just appoint the Postmaster General directly?

I think it goes back to the Nixon Administration: standard (longstanding) GOP bullshit about the Post Office costing too much, too much Civil Service protection, too much “political” interference, etc. (i.e. BS) - so it got spun off into the quasi-independent “Postal Service” it is today.
Which of course, did little/nothing to deal with the main dichotomy in how the PO was looked at: i.e. “deliver the mail in a timely manner” vs. “don’t lose money”