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Originally Posted by Dynasty
The government seems to have been into buying as of late, maybe they should think of selling the postal service.
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The government doesn't "own" the postal service, they just dictate how it operates so everyone in the US can get uniform mail service. The old Post Office Department stopped operation in 1971 and the US Postal Service was established. The USPS does not get any tax dollars, (before the reorganization they got a "public service subsidy") they are mandated to operate a break even operation. Each class of mail is supposed to generate enough income to pay for delivery of that class of mail. (Which obviously they are not doing.) (They do get some tax dollars indirectly, when any congressman does one of those mailings you get now and then - with no stamps - money is paid to the USPS for delivery out of tax dollars.)