Many depend heavily on the Postal Service. We need good mail service for business and personal communication, and the Postal Service is provided for in the Constitution.
It may come as a shock, however, that our Postal Service is losing $6 billion this year, largely because of a drop in mail volume. That drop is linked to the recession and the growing use of the Internet for communications.
To the relief of many, federal regulators recently rejected a proposal to raise letter postage 2 cents.
But it is obvious that with multibillion-dollar annual losses, some undesirable changes - such as fewer delivery days - may be coming.