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Anyone can run a "pretty good service" with massive shovelfuls of taxpayer dollars propping them up every year.

The US should remove all the mandates from the Postal Service and all of the subsidies and open up mail delivery for competition from FedEx and UPS.

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The USPS haven't received tax money for several decades.

Get out of here with your facts. We're here to whine about "entitlements" and "sustainability" and vent whatever other stories we can concoct about how the government can't do anything right, how turning over all government functions to for-profit corporations will fix everything, and how the USPS is evidence of the truth of these assertions. Communist.

Looks like I was wrong on this one.

However, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they will come to the taxpayer looking for a bailout soon.

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