Post office doesn't run an tax dollarsIts self funding and had congressional oversight. I don't work for the post office.
I've heard bad things about Post Office from other parts of the country... but I LOVE our Post Office!!! They totally and completely blow away UPS and Fed Ex here (both of whom like to THROW people's boxes). My mailman is the greatest guy ever. I collect rocks and get shipments of glass. We're talking up to 80 lb shipments, because both are crazy heavy for their small sizes. He walks my glass up carefully and puts the box where I can get to it easily on my porch.
If you drop or throw the box even once, it shatters the glass, and in 5 years of getting glass RODS (as thin as 2mm x 1500mm long each), I've never had a single broken rod or tube via USPS. And the glass sometimes travels from Washington state to Florida, across the entire USA or from Europe. The few times I got glass from UPS, the biggest section left was less than 1" long.
Or... 70 lbs of glass across the country if it's cut, shipped for $11. Anyone suggesting USPS go out of business should be shot.
