Where does it say in the Constitution that USPS must exist?Really?
The Post office is going Bye, Bye?
Hitler will ice skate in hell before that happens.
USPS is mandated in the U.S. Constitution. Inefficient as it is, it will be around in some form, shape or fashion, until a amendment to the Constitution is ratified. Fat chance on that happening.
FDX and UPS will probably survive, but, their survivability is based on profitability, unlike USPS that has a "free" pass, via our tax dollars, to continue to exist.
This triad of deliver companies is just in the first phase of morphing.
Ups made a wise move in using the Basic delivery concept with USPS. In a backdoor manner, UPS is slowly making itself indispensable to USPS, which must exist by constitutional mandate, and therefore, UPS will be covertly covered under the umbrella of USPS's constitutional protection, by keeping USPS functional.
At first, I thought it was a bad move, by UPS ,to deliver to the post office.
Upon reflection, I can now see the long game plan.
I have my problems with the immediate situation at UPS, but just like UPS, I will survive and thrive.
What makes you believe the Post Office receives "our tax dollars"? Direct taxpayer subsidy was eliminated in 1983.