The problem with this is that USPS employees are salaried professionals, not hourly, meaning they would be paid the same amount to perform a less labor-intensive job.

Sorry, but that’s simply a lie. Full time postal employees have a 40 hour work week now, and they will still have a 40 hour week if Saturday delivery is eliminated. Postal workers who sort and deliver the mail are hourly employees. The only salaried employees are executives, managers, etc.- they mostly work Monday through Friday, just as in the private sector.

If the Postal Service were a private company and not a government entity, it would have failed years ago.

If the Postal Service were a private company and not a government entity, it wouldn’t have been saddled by Congress and the Bush Administration with a $5 billion a year payment to supposedly “pre-fund” future retiree health benefits, something no other company or agency is required to do. Without that extra tax (which is, of course paid by the private businesses that use the USPS), the USPS would actually be showing almost a billion dollar profit so far this year.

If the Postal Service were a private company and not a government entity, it would not have been overcharged by $75 billion since its inception for pension costs.

It’s sad to see such badly written and uninformed writing on a university newspaper’s web site.