I have never understood business models that try to solve their red ink problems by reducing the services they provide.
I wouldn't invest in any of them.
Well, not voluntarily anyway. Of course you "Americans are undertaxed" folk will say I'm just not in the spirit of doing the right thing for America.
Even though the post office (and my PO Box) is right across the street from my house, and even though I really like the people who work at it, I think this sort of "cut services" approach is inevitable when those who make the decisions are divorced from the consequences of the choices.
I'd simply close the entire thing down. Maybe offer current USPS employees an opportunity to buy assets if they think they can make a profit with whichever part of the USPS stuff that uses those particular assets. If you're losing that many billions every year as a business enterprise, your enterprise ought to die.
1. How many $$billions is the USPS annual budget?
2. How many $billions could all those post offices and postage meters and letter sorting machines get, even at a bankruptcy liquidation fire sale?
How would the sum of 1 and 2, plus the tax revenues from the successful enterprises said buyers put into practice, compare to...say, the chicken-feed approaches both major parties see as "solutions" to the national debt?
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)