23 Feb 2012 11:46 am
MistyBlue, on 22 February 2012 - 07:55 PM, said:You're correct. It receives no direct public funding TODAY. That changed in ~1982. You are, however, given a government-granted monopoly on the use of people's mailboxes that prevents competition. Monopolies are a form of subsidy, BTW.....The taxpayer is funding the USPS via stamp sales granted to an institution that has no competition by governmental edict.Say, remind me, who was president in 1982?Confucius made the point that if a leader offends the bureaucracy, the bureaucracy never forgets. That's just one reason Democrats hate Reagan or any president who cuts off the water spigot.I've made the same point about the monopoly on mailboxes, but all she does is bleat and dissemble.