Internet was always the bte noir of the USPS because the usage of e-mail >reduced very significantly the mailing of letters.
I learned with satisfaction that: "Helped by a surge of Christmas parcels, >the United States Postal Service reported an operating profit of $1.3
billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2016, which ended Dec. 31, 2015."
"... American taxpayers subsidize the USPS at a rate that surpasses the
costs associated with any Congressional mandate. He (Robert Shapiroformer >Treasury undersecretary and chairman - VM) estimates that, all told, the >subsidies and legal monopolies that Congress bestows upon the post office is >worth $18 billion annually. ...
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