Postal service delays plan to end Saturday mail delivery

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I truly pity the CEO of USPS. People in Congress constantly berate you for having a company that loses money, and then when you try to run your company profitably, Congress doesn't let you.

Except the USPS isn't a company, it's a constitutionally specified public service.

No, the USPS is the government-owned company that since 1971 has provided the specified post offices.  It would be quite possible for the government to choose any number of ways of providing postal service, and a large majority of them would be better than the current system.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Bringing back the postal banking system would be a good idea, too.

Not really.  It was already dying from lack of use when they killed it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Along with the 3/5ths clause, the USPS is another example that just because something's in the Constitution, it doesn't make it a good idea. The government has no business being in this outdated industry.

Actually it's a case of a constitutional provision being viewed in a strict constructionist form rather than its actual intent.  It would be as if the provisions allowing for an army and an navy were viewed to preclude having an air force.

There is no reason why those provisions could not have been used to provide for greater government involvement in telecommunications as was the case in a number of other countries.  The purpose of the clause was to ensure that communication could be reliably be made between any two people in the US, no matter where they may be.

While snail mail has declined in importance, the availability of a universal carrier of the same, available to all, has not.