I respectfully disagree about being insane to want a government job. Do you know about the pre-funding of future retirees pensions? You probably do, but some here may not. The post office, since 2006 has been required to pre-fund its future expected retiree pension and healthcare benefits at the cost of 5.5+ billion dollars a year....this is for people that don't work there yet and haven't even been born yet! This is extremely rare. This is where many of there "losses" come from. When was the post office most profitable? You guessed it...right before this kicked in! They basically had a bunch of "extra" money they had to figure out what to do with!
A quote from the LA Times article "Trump says the Postal Service is 'dumber and poorer,' but he and Congress deserve the blame" ---->
"What the Postal Service's critics (including Trump) almost never mention is that the real drag on its earnings is another congressional directive. I wrote in 2012 that the USPS' fiscal crisis was "as artificial as they come" — it was the product of a 2006 congressional mandate that the service must prepay over the next 10 years all its future expected retiree healthcare benefits.
Those payments totaled $38 billion through 2011, with further installments of between $5.6 billion and $11.1 billion a year due through 2016. At least $34 billion is still owed, according to the annual report. Conservatives who maintain that the USPS should be operated profitably, like a private business, fail to explain why the service should be burdened with a prepayment mandate that its competitors don't face".
The Post Office has been around since 1775, I don't think they're going anywhere.