U.S. Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs

Seems inevitable, no?

I get perhaps one meaningful piece of mail a week tops, and nothing that can't wait a week. There are peaks (weddings, Xmas, etc) but very little that justifies the scale of the system. I suspect this is true for a large percent of the population under 60 - at least the urgency part. The trend will continue.

One secondary question - are the fixed costs so big that the system only works with huge volumes?