IIRC USPS has been making deals with the same devil for decades, way before the current generation of budget crises started. While they are not getting all the

IIRC USPS has been making deals with the same devil for decades, way before the current generation of budget crises started. While they are not getting all the funding they want IMO they are not using what they get well enough. Their disdain for technology and ignoring end user desires is phenomenal (send an overnight package via FedEx, see it by the minute as the package travels; send an overnight via USPS, see "no record for package" until 24-36 hrs later by which time the package is usually delivered already). This IMO costs them a lot of potentially highly profitable business. But they do not (seem to) care.