Blues Gal

Long the Financials? Solving the Mortgage Problems Will Help

The US Postal Service is a quasi-governmental agency. The President appoints 9 out of the 11 board members, they are then confirmed by the Senate. Those board members then appoint a Postmaster General and he appoints the next in command.
It is then supposed to be run as a business.

Long the Financials? Solving the Mortgage Problems Will Help

I agree with your last paragraph especially. As for your solutions, seems like the government has to be involved in every aspect of the economy!
Maybe this is what we've come to. President Obama seems to think so. Giving this much power to Washington can only bring more frustration. Look at how the government operates right now, it functions on deficit spending and can't even run a Postal Service that doesn't lose money. I'm afraid that this doesn't inspire much confidence in me.