I say good riddance to the worthless wasteful system. It's a joke in today's world. Nothing but junk mail anymore. I can picture 25 employees all sitting around passing the only real piece of mail around in the circle before they decide who goes to deliver it.

wasteful system?

Yes. The price continues to rise and the amount of business continues to plummet. The post office is an idea who's time has passed. The business model they use would put private businesses under, but they don't have access to tax money to stay on life support.
The post office is Amtrak on a larger scale. Nothing more. Useful to a point but not worth the cost.

E-mails, fax machines, cell phones, all are making Postal Service mostly obselete. If the postal service would charge for all the unwanted junk mail they have to deliver they would be operating in the black. I feel sorry for the postal workers, they aren't the problem.

They are kind of the problem. They didn't look forward very well and continued funding unsustainable retirement programs.

I don't think most people would pay to deliver junk mail. It's abundant precisely because it's free to them.

I don't doubt the GOP would gut the system. I would simply let the free market decide it's fate.

If the taxpayers aren't funding it, isn't it already privatized in theory??

You're forgetting to figure in the changing business model that electronic transfers brought. That alone changed everything.

please people do research the tax payers do not pay a cent to the post office the fact is they would of made a profit every year if that stupid pre fund retirement 75 years in advance never came up if any thing the government\ tax payers owe the USPS money because for years they were over paying pensions and never got the money back

You know that bill was sponsored by a democrat and passed a voice vote with no debate, right? Seems like both sides buried their heads in the sand and ignored what was going to happen.

were sunk

www.zerohedge.com/news/bailout-postal-service-begins-cost-taxpayers-110000-vote-saved-or-gained

senate passes usps bill delays end of sat del for at least 2 yrs

I wish I could opt out of daily mail like Cosmo Kramer.

How stupid 'mailer' style junk mail and the yellow pages have escaped the scorn of the green movement is beyond me.

its all political, who can we make happy b4 the election, then worry about everything after there in office for 4 years ugh......