It is evident that in US the federal post office is failing and currently it has no new business model to become profitable.
It is also evident that more we hold on to the postal office system, more federal funding will be required to buy it out.
Each day the postal office service is open, we the people, lose federal money to its conservative and inflexible business model that has failed and continues to fail and incur debt daily without any hope of change.
There is no good solution at this point but keeping the postal system open is no solution as well. Perhaps it is time to allow private businesses to take over while federal government oversees their practices on competition.
Making money on sending unwanted junk mail kills our national forest reserves.