Well, that might be how it's currently primarily funded, but that doesn't mean that that's the way it has to be funded.

I would rather pay for more expensive stamps than a time and environmental cost.

Then the USPS is too large and not fit for purpose.

I'm not convinced they should survive, given all the waste. USPS jobs pay well tho. I've made some decent money as a contractor... hauling truckloads of these garbage commercial flyers and nondescript magazines. But in the distribution facilities, I've often seen literally shipments of birds, bees, plants, or just glancing down at a pile of mail, might see an obvious love letter. Hopefully not a creep. And all the shipping from Amazon, UPS, Fedex, etc, tends to find its way in a USPS truck.

edit: also, fuck DeJoy. that rat bastard can go back to XPO.