How to Save the Post Office

[MADem]

1. I frigging LOVE the post office. I relied on it over the years while in uniform.

The DOD arm of the USPS saved my ass on more than one occasion--before "online ordering," before UPS and FEDEX and DSL and all these other "absolutely, positively, have-to-have-it overnight" shippers. It also was a real lifeline back in the days before the internet and affordable phone communications (when you're paying close to a quarter of your salary to speak to your family, RARELY, from the other side of the globe, that can get expensive).

In UK, you can get your MOT sticker (car tax payment) at the Post Office, and a bunch of other stuff, too. I don't know how well state DMVs would cozy up to the idea of a federal employee doing state business, but I imagine there are other non-postal services the USPS could provide that might increase their profit margin and utility while not crossing that state-federal divide.