[MrMorden]

Possibly accelerated, but for several years they've been moving in the direction of assuming nobody will visit a post office unless they have no other option and have reduced hours to whatever they think they can get away with politically.

Ten years ago there were quite a few post offices open 24/7/365. Today the 24-hour locations are at best 18/7 and the more usual hours are better than traditional banker's but worse than retail M-F, limited on Saturday, and LOLGFY on Sunday. Which limits their revenue to whatever services they have a legal monopoly on, plus package services for businesses where the shipper wasn't going to the post office to mail things anyhow.

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Hasn't Congress continually set them up for failure?

[cenal]

The Congress makes the USPS fund it’s pension. No other part of the government has funded itself properly so lots of debt.