Your shipping wrecks. USPS,FED-EX and UPS

look at what Germany has done with DHL. 

I used to chat with a couple people in Germany. They always complained about DHL.

The USPS would be profitable if not for the fact the GOP Congress required them to fund future pension liability 30 years out, a requirement no other organization suffers. Could be fixed fairly easily if the will was there.

Article 1, section 8 gives Congress authority to establish post *offices* and postal roads. That did not include postal carriers, which was originally done by independent contractors.

I don’t see an Amendment that gave Congress authority to change the Constitution. But like 95%+ of what Congress does, it creates bureaucracies that expand the Federal Government beyond what is specified and mandated, and worse, funds it without having that authority.

I’m more a Libertarian than anything else, so don’t get me started how both parties have screwed up the Federal Government and it’s out of control spending by establishing agencies, laws, programs, etc. way beyond their scope of legislative Constitutional authority.

Anyway, I see no correlation between pension liabilities and the current problems.

I told myself not to get involved in this silly political nonsense, so I’ll leave it there.

Libertarianism is a wonderful social and political philosophy that would possibly work in a country of few people. It can’t work in a country as populous as ours. I equate it with Utopianism. Naive and not realistic.

I have no idea what you are talking about. And I am not sure you know either.

The Constitution itself is a document based on many libertarian principles. Perhaps the greatest document ever developed for any nation. Too bad we have not been able to follow its guidelines as written.

bkeske...My point is that the conditions and needs of the country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were much different than we face today in an industrialized country of roughly 330 million people.

I disagree. The intent and rational of the original document are still valid. Unfortunately we started separating from the intent at the beginning of the 1900’s. If it needs changed, or expanded in terms of Federal authority, there is an avenue to do that, with the consent of 3/4 of the states. We don’t do that.

If you read the Federalist Papers, which I have, you will find many warnings that we would have to deal with should we stray. They were right (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay).