$9 billion was 0.073% of total federal spending in FY2024.

Small price to pay for something as extraordinary as the USPS.

I don’t think of their finances as being dogshit because there aren’t revenue positive. It’s a fraction of a sliver of the federal budget to run a constitutionally mandated service.

The (non-navy) military has no constitutional mandate at all, it’s an industrial scale cash incineration device which the postal service can’t hold a candle to, and we don’t blink at it wasting 10x or more of the postal service’s opex.

Would you allow other companies to deliver letters and to deliver stuff inside mailboxes? I find it disgusting that a company with a monopoly on those two services still can't make a profit.

Someone just bringing whatever shit they want to my house? Junkmail needs to be deregulated? Everytime I hear the "notions" of the libertarian/hypercapitalist ilk it just sounds like "What if your life could be even shittier than it is now?!?"

It can’t make profit because USPS is not allowed to set the prices of its services.

They also have to deliver to every valid residential address.

You wouldn’t see UPS or fedex running a mule train to make sure an area still gets mail[1]

If we let other companies take over and kill the USPS we’ll just see a ton of areas of the country not get delivered too because the profit margin isn’t there.

[1] https://facts.usps.com/8-mile-mule-train-delivery/

Public services don’t exist to make a profit.

The finances of your police and fire departments, your libraries and public schools, and the military, are all “dogshit” by this absurd reasoning.