It's not uncommon that we hear about the ongoing decline of the US Postal Service. The typical refrain is that the Postal Service is an anachronistic institution doomed to failure by technology and the digitization of correspondence. What this article illustrates is that the problems of the USPS are largely political, and the organization's demise is not a foregone conclusion. Moreover, the importance of the Postal Service to American society, though difficult to quantify, is nonetheless extremely important, and private delivery carriers are unlikely to ever meet this need.
"Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office?" by Jesse Lichtenstein
Published in Esquire, February 2013
Eric
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