by Chris Bodenner

A reader writes:

I guess folks who don't have computers and email (folks who are usually poorer, more rural, and/or older) just wouldn't get mail?  And for them and everyone else:  No more letters to family.  No more postcards from far away places.  No more Christmas cards or other greeting cards.  And what about bills?  How does a creditor establish that a bill was dispatched to the customer's legal address, with a presumption that you received that bill and, therefore, must pay by the due date?  Via email?  Would you be required to have email to get billed services such as electricity, gas, water?

There's a reason the Constitution requires a postal service.  I shudder to think that we will decide it is too expensive to maintain.  Perhaps we should first look to remove the USPS obligation to fund pensions for 75 years,  or stop subsidizing business advertisement with low postage rates.

Another writes:

I find the argument that the Internet makes the Post Office obsolete somewhat odd. Virtually everything I buy online comes to me via USPS.