re: #77 Jay C

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”

USPS was designed to deliver mail to everyone and the postal rates were determined not by distance or density, but on the cost to process on average. That’s why a first class mail to someone living in the middle of nowhere Alaska costs as much as sending it to someone the next town over in NJ. It’s not about money, it’s about the constitutional obligation to provide mail service. It was an essential part of government, and the GOP has decided that it should be run like a business, because that’s how they view everything.

Never mind that businesses routinely fail (see also, Trump, Donald J), and that the post office is not supposed to fail.