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[ElboRuum]

Even though the USPS is really a not-for-profit corporation with a legal contract to perform a service on behalf of the federal government, I'm sure it looks like "yet another example of government unable to do anything right" and something that should be privatized, and we all know that the Teapugnicans would rather slaughter the cow for its meat rather than nurse it back to health so it can keep giving milk.

My question is, if they do go under, who plans to deliver letters in its absence? The major parcel delivery companies won't typically handle this, and even if they retooled their operations, how much would they charge to carry it? Certainly not 44 cents for "first-class mail". Probably 3x that. For profit, don't you know. Oh, and I'm sure that legal protections for the privacy of said mail wouldn't apply. Don't be surprised if the delivery guy passes his lunch break reading your most intimate of intimates, or writing down your credit card numbers.