Has anyone heard that the Post Office is in financial ruin..Another government run program on the brink of bankrupties...and they want to give us health care..What are your thoughts?

The post office is gong down the tubes because of all the other services that mail things for you such as UPS, Federal express, and the biggest one for letters, emails. Health care is a whole different beast, it can be paid for, do you really think we cant? If we can spend billions of dollars blowing up other countries i think we could afford to take care of our own people, as a matter of fact, i would consider this a priority over blowing up brown people, which we seem to love to do.

Way to use a one-dimensional analysis. The Post-Office's huge decline has little to do with it being government-run: Snail Mail surpassed its pinnacle and began its inevitable decline last century. It will NEVER AGAIN be as successful and widely used as it was in, say, the 1950s --- Regardless of whether it is run by the government, private corporations, cooperatives, or anything else. As others have stated, E-Mail is the primary reason for the decline of paper mail. It's exponentially faster, totally free, you can easily save and duplicate messages and attachments, and you don't waste physical resources or physical storage space >>> It's all around better for most people.

Those who don't learn from examples set by others are doomed to repeat them. When the govt decides to take over a business, it always fails. Govt by definition is supposed to regulate and legislate, not run businesses for profit successfully. Its like trying to teach a pig to sing...you end up looking foolish and annoying the pig in the process.

why oay 44cents to send a letter, when you can do it for free: email, and yes they are going to give us health care, stop watching glenn beck

The problem is not government or not government, it is monopoly. Any monopoly becomes either a ripoff (if not controlled, because monopoly power will be abused) or a disaster (if controlled, because the controller will always err in the direction of overcontrol). A government health scheme should have competitors, which will of necessity be private. The government should provide only the basic fall-back scheme, allowing private suppliers to add extras as their customers may desire. It is almost never public bad, private good; it is almost always monopoly bad, competition good. Government tends to give itself monopolies, which puts it automatically in the bad. But private monopolies are just as bad.

Funny how many blame any government for things when its the PEOPLE who are the blame by NOT using the post office in the first place... if YOU and others want to keep a postal service then get of your fat arses and start to use it!.

Everything the Government touches turns to shit. medicare....medicaid......fanny mae and freddy mac.....post office......you are now understanding the truth.

The Post Office is not government run in the sense that it is taxpayers-dependent like other traditional government programs and entities. Although it is owned entirely by the United States Government, the USPS functions as if it were a private corporation. It is run by an 11-member Board of Governors appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with one member -- the Postmaster General -- acting as the Chief Executive Officer. The Postal Service is the third-largest employer in the United States, behind the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart. The USPS is not paid for or supported by tax money. It is an independent operation that generates its own income from stamps and delivery services.