> What's the answer? Taking a guess here that this is a US based comment? In Australia the postal service is a private company fully owned by the government. I

> What's the answer? Taking a guess here that this is a US based comment? In Australia the postal service is a private company fully owned by the government. It's fairly well run by the private sector, consistently reliable and paying out annual profits to the Australian budget. It's not a burden at all on society, quite the opposite really, all that despite having strict service requirements to serve 99% of the population spread thinly across huge areas.