I think there’s just a cultural difference between Sweden and the US into how the postal service is viewed. In the US, the postal service is the OG government

I think there’s just a cultural difference between Sweden and the US into how the postal service is viewed. In the US, the postal service is the OG government service - the power of Congress to create post offices is explicitly called out in the Constitution when it was signed. Further, the US postal service has a mandate to provide mail access to every residential address - even if’s some remote island in Alaska. I think the idea that the government can just throw up its hands when faced with a private labor strike, and say “Nothing we can do” is just baffling to us in the US.