Rural Post Offices Closing

[CJ5Dave]

I have a package in the regional office since May 29. A friend has one there since June 2023. Not sure where they are storing it all.

 

[RJSakowski]

I can find no evidence that the Post Office is anything other than a government organization though privatization has been proposed many times.

GsT

It is privatized to the extent that they are responsible for their own budget rather than being funded through taxpayer dollars. It is actually a government owned corporation created in 1970. There are still government subsidies, however, and there was a bill passed in Congress in 2022 to provide $50 billion in relief to the USPS.

 

[Aaron_W]

When one thinks about the history of the USPS, one has to admire the role it played to bringing civilization to the frontier of the 1800's. Countless settlers depended upon the USPS to connect them with civilization back East. Mail order houses like Montgomery Wards and Sears and Roebuck sent much needed goods to customers via the USPS. It was possible to mail your kids to relatives through an oversight in the postal service regulations. To this day, live chicks are delivered to rural customers by the USPS.

It is unfortunate that our politicians didn't fully understand the significance of the of the postal system to the well being to the country, both past and present, when it chose to privatize it.

The first roads made with Federal funds were authorized as necessary for mail delivery, and the first US passenger airlines were subsidized by air mail delivery routes. Much of the expansion of the US was aided by the postal mission.

Sadly there have been forces trying to sabotage the USPS, nojoy is just the latest in a long effort.