Saving the USPS

It always bugs me when people say the United States Postal Service is losing money.  Does the Army make money?  How about NASA, or the National Park Service, or the Soil Conservation Service?  Government agencies are expected to perform a service, not make a profit.  That is why they are government agencies.  

Congress recently passed a bill that will help the Post Office.  In 2006 Congress had enacted a policy mandating the USPS to cover healthcare costs decades in advance.  The new law deletes that requirement, and that alone will save the USPS billions over the next ten years.