The postal service would be much better off financially if Congress would take off the handcuffs. On the one hand, they cut off tax-payer funding and tell it to

The postal service would be much better off financially if Congress would take off the handcuffs. On the one hand, they cut off tax-payer funding and tell it to fund itself (in the same way a for-profit company would), but it micromanages it in a way that it couldn't/doesn't (and shouldn't) micromanage its private competitors, like UPS and Fedex.