> However, to fix USPS some of that attention needs to come in the form of hard kicks and forced reorgs. USPS is a dinosaur with a lot of inertia against improving efficiency and modernization.

I haven't seen evidence of this, in fact I think it's just coming back to the lack of funding. USPS is a bit of a dead-end job due to how limited its lifespan is (continued calls to defund it from the right) and in its current state it isn't really attracting talent. If the US cared about its post service it could be revived and greatly improved.

Also, just FYI, you folks have it great. I'm a US expat in Canada and CanadaPost is comparatively terrible - it's slow, expensive, and most package delivery happens through the third party companies (like FedEx, UPS, Purolator, DHL whatnot) which are absolute trash up here - without USPS constantly raising the bar the independent delivery services routinely lie about delivery attempts, refuse to deliver to addresses and re-route packages miles away when they have offices down the street.

Since moving up to Canada I've been pretty wowed by the healthcare, but the mail system up here is terrible. I think there are some intensely dedicated souls in USPS still that have managed to keep everything going on their shoestring budget, but they're eventually going to retire and the defunding will probably be capped with USPS being privatized for "costing the tax payers money".

It's okay though - delivery service in DC will be great. And USPS will be the latest example of "failed socialism" and held up as the Dems mismanaging budgets.