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For 200 years the nation’s postal system has been vital in the building of America and equally vital in supporting America’s free press.
It has provided a unique communications network, binding Americans together, in the words of George Washington, “in a chain which can never be broken.” But now that unbreakable chain is breaking.
In 1971, the Postal Reorganization Act changed the Post Office Department into a corporate business. And that reorganized Postal Service has been, in many ways, a disaster. The deficits for this “business-like” postal corporation are in the billions of dollars, and only some emergency appropriations from Congress have saved the Service from total bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, rates for all classes of mail have skyrocketed. Services have been slashed—and there is the threat of still more slashing: the closing of rural village post offices, the
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