[Hoot Gibson]

Agreed - but the government does not run the USPS, only restricts it

It is pretty much the same thing and maybe even worse. The USPS is bleeding cash while it waits for Congress to return from recess and bail it out. Any infusion of federal funds comes with lots of strings attached. Federal agencies and heavily regulated quasi-government entities like the USPS can never be as agile and efficient as private corporations like UPS. It's the same reason that private schools are, on average, able to deliver a much better education for a lower price per pupil than government schools.