Another petition asking President
Obama to “
Save the Post Office” has been started on the White House’s “We the People” website. The petition is in response to the recent
Esquire article “
Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office?” and begins with the same glaring mistake as the article: "The Postal Service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so." While it’s undeniably true that the USPS is self-supporting, and wouldn’t have a net loss absent the 2006 PAEA pre-funding requirement, it IS,...