DIE ALREADY

While postal services were at one time vital for domestic and international communications, even with huge financial losses, we have reached a time where they should be allowed to die or should be euthanized.  Instead of competing with private services, they should abandon most of what they do or become agents for those services.  There is no way to justify the expense the postal service represents to the American public.

FedEx, UPS and other smaller carriers do at a profit what our parcel services do at a loss.  That service should end immediately.  They could continue in a way functioning as agents for other services. Much of the bulk advertising and lower classes of mail service is now handled by those who distribute circulars to homes or have been replaced by Internet advertising. First class mail has fallen victim to the computer and faxes.  What is left is a small fraction of the postal services provided in the past.  Courier services also compete with that small portion.

Our history, with progress and innovation, is full of examples of what were once vital services falling by the wayside.  Pony express, the stage coach, to a large extent trolleys and others fell victim to better ways of doing the same thing.  It's time for the postal services to find a way to scale back to whatever services are not or cannot be provided by private services.