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Perhaps you missed the memo. Trump is hiring the CEO of FedEx to be Postmaster General, and he *hates* the USPS!
Perhaps you missed the memo - the Postmaster General is not an appointed position. The President appoints the Board of Governors for terms of 7 years and they select the Postmaster General.
If not, what can be done to keep it and have it stop bleeding money?
Let us know who is going to deliver a letter for 49 cents?
The Post Office's problem isn't inefficiency, it's a combination of technology change to email and especially e-bill and their own unwillingness to raise prices. Even FedEx knows this and uses the USPS to delier quite a few of their parcels.
30% of Fed Ex deliveries , about 2 2 million packages a day, are outsourced to USPS.
UPS also outsources to the USPS.
The old line used to be that the Post Office delivers in a week, what UPS delivers in a year and that the Post Office delivers in a day, what Fedex delivers in a year! Both UPS and Fedex depend on the Post Office to deliver that last expensive mile to the customer's house or business.
Without the USPS, UPS and Fedex would be UP Schitz's Creek Without A Paddle!
I hear that Amazon is starting to hire drivers for final delivery similar to Uber.
And they're paying their drivers $25 an hour! You have to pay a liveable wage to avoid having a first-day driver, drive off with a truckful of iPhones and Kindles! $7.25 an hour ain't goin' cut it! And those drones and all the 14 year olds to fly them aren't cheap either!!!
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You have to pay a liveable wage to avoid having a first-day driver, drive off with a truckful of iPhones and Kindles! $7.25 an hour ain't goin' cut it! And those drones and all the 14 year olds to fly them aren't cheap either!!! 
