Nobody’s really willing to have this conversation. Much like the TSA, the USPS is a jobs program. The bulk mail justifies the ongoing maintenance expenditures on the mail sorting equipment that will be unnecessary if we stop pushing so many Valpaks and predatory “I want to pay cash for your house” mailers. And a lot of people who process the mail will be out of a job, and a good chunk of people who deliver the mail will be out of a job, and the remaining carriers will have a radically different job as the load is lightened and they would have to travel much further distances on their routes to justify a full day’s wage, but the economics of traveling that far start to raise questions about whether 6 day a week delivery to every address is a reasonable burden for the USPS to shoulder... presumably management would be unaffected.

This will all be in limbo til the nation is ready to talk about what work and life look like in a world where we’re all pretending to need to work 40 hours a week to live. And with the state of mass media as it is, the citizens don’t really get a say when it comes to what we’re talking about this week. Ironically, the USPS is well positioned to reach its customers and get the ball rolling… but taking a stance on the right to life would be deemed political.

I’d argue that is what it became, not what it started as or should be.

The whole 'run government like a business' idea usually entails running it into the ground. It's just a more diplomatic way to express wanting to remove social services from people.