So, political hack and former Trump lackey Stephen Moore wants us to believe that the USPS is no longer useful. He could not be more wrong. Moore also expresses his clear resentment for DEI in the USPS. He so cannot stand the use of the USPS worker title “postal carrier” or “letter carrier” instead of the antiquated “postman” that he had to mention it twice in the same editorial.

Although some Americans have taken the easy way out by sending “I love you” and “happy birthday” messages electronically, many Americans still write letter and cards by hand and mail them via USPS. The fact that Hallmark and other companies are still successfully making and selling hard copy greeting cards proves that not all messages are sent electronically.

USPS provides important services beyond mailing letters and cards to American citizens. USPS rents out PO boxes to people who do not have a home or otherwise cannot have their mail delivered directly to their home or business. A vitally important function is delivering prescription medications to those who are unable to leave home or travel to get medications.

USPS also provides vital help to many private businesses. Many businesses send advertising via USPS. Amazon and UPS have recently stopped making some direct home deliveries and instead are delivering packages, sometimes by the pallet, to the post office. Because rural postal carriers use their own vehicles, they typically use smaller more fuel-efficient vehicles with limited storage. When Amazon drops of a pallet load of large packages, a postal carrier may need to return to the post office several times to reload. This can result in the postal carrier working into the evening in order to get the packages delivered on time.

One huge advantage of letters sent via USPS is that by law, they are still private and can only be carried by USPS employees. Most anything sent electronically is not, thanks to government snooping, hackers, etc. Government agencies, credit card companies and others still send important sensitive information by mail. If laws are changed so that private companies can handle the mail, this security will go away.

USPS is set up to be self-sufficient funding-wise. I’d rather pay $2 for a “forever” stamp to mail a card via USPS than $5 via a privately owned shipping company, whose CEO will use the majority of the profit to bribe President Trump and to buy an umpteenth getaway mansion. In Moore’s eyes, the most important and intolerable difference between the USPS and FedEx/UPS is that there is no CEO at the top raking in the profits while customers pay exorbitant prices.

Moore complains about USPS loss of $120 billion over the past 20 years. This is about $6 billion per year, about $18 per person per year for the 330 million US residents. This is not nothing. However, compare that with the $25-30 billion the Trump administration has wasted in only about 3 months by starting an unneeded elective war with Iran in an attempt to deflect our attention from the Epstein files.

Moore wants to see letter carriers, who place mail into mailboxes, replaced by drones that dump mail onto our front lawns. This would leave mail very vulnerable to theft, snooping and bad weather. Unlike rich jerks such as Moore, not everyone has a front lawn. Moore makes a phony attempt at lamenting what will happen to all the mailmen replaced by drones. Obviously, he cares not for these people. Drones still need people to purchase, operate, maintain and sort and load mail into them. Perhaps a thoughtful and caring USPS would retrain displaced employees.

It is Moore who is obsolete, not the USPS. Proof that Moore is obsolete is that he is no longer the senior economic advisor to President Trump, who is very proficient at quickly dumping those who become obsolete to him.