Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress and was the Founder who most clearly saw the need for a national post office. Through war and peace we have had fairly reliable mail and parcel service. Even today, when so much is being done on-line we need it.
I like being able to send a letter or card to a grandchild, a friend, a family member. The kids love getting something int he mail! I like being able to send a check and create a paper record of my payments and transactions.
I also like mail for another reason. It is slow but it is relatively secure. All out electronic communications are on plain view to government and non-government actors. Artificial intelligence can read them all in real time, and pass anything of interest on to human agents. Letters can be steamed open and read, but it would take an army of snoops to do what is being done with internet traffic by a few supercomputers with AI. I don't have anything I want to hide, at least not at this stage in my life, but I like my privacy and US Mail is as good as it gets.
Looks like USPS is going to run out of funding in a few weeks. The Administration has threatened to veto any bailout bill that funds USPS. My guess is its a move to have a privateer swoop in and pick it up cheap. Well, have you checked what it costs to send a letter by UPS or FedEx? Educate yourselves if you care, and send a letter to your Representative and both Senators.
End of speech.
jn