Save the U. S. Postal Service (or "the Post Office")

Current proposals to cut back the U. S. Postal Service to terminate Saturday deliveries is absure.  Of course, the whole notion that the USPS should be self-sufficient, and/or that the USPS should be able to compete effectively with Fed Ex and UPS is equally absurd.

Fed Ex and UPS don't have to serve Red Lodge, Montana - or Goodrich, North Dakota - or Wikieup, Arizona - or Barksdale, Texas - or Catahoula, Louisiana - or Kershaw, South Carolina - or Moorefield, West Virginia - or Emporium, Pennsylvania - or Thendara, New York - or Rutland, Vermont - or Springfield, Maine.  Do you know how Fed Ex and UPS service those places when they have a package to be delivered there?  They give it to the U. S. Post Office.

It is the most ridiculous notion on earth that the USPS should be a profit-based operation.  Delivery of the mail is a government service. It is something that the government has an obligation to perform.  The fact that it costs exponentially more money to deliver a letter to any of the hamlets mentioned above than to deliver to New York City MUST be a paramount consideration.  Any "business" that is obliged to operate in a money-losing environment cannot be required to compete with those who bear no such obligation.

Let's do away with the separte corporation that is the USPS.  Let's bring back "the U. S. Post Office", as an official branch of the U. S. Government, and let's quit pretending that delivery of the mail to the hinterlands of our great country is a luxury, rather than a government obligation.