The post office is chronically underfunded as a result of hostile federal regulation (mostly put in place by people who want to privatize it and prevent rural c

The post office is chronically underfunded as a result of hostile federal regulation (mostly put in place by people who want to privatize it and prevent rural customers from getting the low-cost service mandated by law). So yeah, the post office is a great example: Of what happens when critical services are underfunded. The post office is also not a traditional federal agency - a directly state-operated power company would have a very different administrative and funding structure.