Why would it be a good thing to pay the same number of people to deliver fewer and fewer letters, promising additional cost to get those letters there the next day when an email will cost nothing to get there instantaneously?
The role of the postal service to provide information integration and social cohension has been largely superceded in the electronics age. The small amount of off-grid people continuing to rely on the service can't possibly justify the vast postal infrastructure designed primarily to serve those who no longer need it. I personally think the US postal service will and should go completely out of business unless it were to refocus itself successfully to compete with Fedex and UPS and primarily a parcel delivery service.
The role of the postal service to provide information integration and social cohension has been largely superceded in the electronics age. The small amount of off-grid people continuing to rely on the service can't possibly justify the vast postal infrastructure designed primarily to serve those who no longer need it. I personally think the US postal service will and should go completely out of business unless it were to refocus itself successfully to compete with Fedex and UPS and primarily a parcel delivery service.
