A company that a friend owns was asked to come in and analyze the USPS twice in a 3-5 year time span. They have extensive knowledge of logistics networks and making them more efficient.

They found that the USPS hadn't spent money to update much of any of their infrastructure for decades, throwing a date out like everything looked like it was from the 50's.

The USPS is a prime example of rot from within, just like auto unions and many other industries that we are all familiar with.

The verdict was given to the USPS that they would be better to just scrap their infrastructure and start over versus continuing to band-aid everything.

Their employees are paid way too much, they have ridiculous retirement plans, and most of them hate dealing with the public.

Let it burn.

My understanding is that they are also sitting on a ton of money that was allocated to them and they aren't spending, for some reason. They keep asking for more money to pull them out of the red but have already received quite a bit.