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It's not so much a government agency as it is a public corporation. In the days when the postal service was founded, large corporations were rare enough that th
by c3534l 6y ago
It's not so much a government agency as it is a public corporation. In the days when the postal service was founded, large corporations were rare enough that they had to be created and initially funded by the government. Now we have financial markets and concepts that allow for the streamlined creation of large corporations, but it's closer to the modern concept of a utility than anything else.
- djur 6y agoIt hasn't always been a public corporation. USPS only dates back to 1970. Previous to that it was the US Post Office Department, a cabinet-level agency. It was reorganized in 1970 in response to a strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._postal_strike_of_1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._postal_strike_of_1970