For generations the United States Postal Service has served all Americans. Privatization will result in loss of service to rural areas, lost jobs, and increased costs.
In 2006, Congress directed the USPS to pre-fund retirement costs for the next 75 years by 2016. This unreasonable demand has depleted its funds. Rescinding this demand we make of no other entity would allow the USPS to recover on its own. In 2010, the USPS had $67 billion in revenue.
The USPS, the second largest US employer, receives no public monies.
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." - Herodotus, 503 B.C. (Inscribed on the General Post Office facility on 33rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City.) (Source: USPS)