JUST SOME POSTS

This post is prompted by the hysteria being ginned up by politicians over the United States Postal Service (hereafter to be referred to as the USPS).  First some facts and history about the USPS. The USPS (it's predecessor actually, but for all intents and purposes - the same organization) was an original part of the US Government and even before that Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General by the Continental Congress in 1775 to oversee the newly formed Post Office Department (he had been Postmaster General of the Colonies). It was recognized that the efficient and timely movement of the mail was critical to communication in a large and widespread land. The Post Office Department was made a Cabinet level department by President Washington in 1792 after the Postal Service Act of 1791. The Post Office remained a Cabinet level department until 1971 when the USPS was formed. It is now a semi-autonomous organization that has its own budgeting and is administered by