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Rob D.I have friends in three different cities who are postal service employees, so this isn't intended to be a postal-bashing post. But honestly, the world built a better mousetrap (or mousetraps, in the form of e-mail, UPS, FedEx, etc.) and the USPS got left in the dust. Granted, none of the other carriers are perfect, and e-mail has limitations, but the USPS for years operated like a business that enjoyed a monopoly and didn't care much about performance. Now it has come back to bite them.
I have little doubt that the USPS soon will be standing in the bailout line, and because it's government-owned, more money will be thrown at it. Here's hoping that eventually Americans will see the light that bailing out businesses that are struggling or failing in part because of their own doing is not the answer.