https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

As a business decision, it would be 100% justified. They've taken in 450 Billion and ended up with NEGATIVE FIVE billion, meaning that they make a shitton of money and still end up losing all of it plus 5 Billion. That's wild mismanagement. Imagine a lemonade stand selling 450 dollars in lemonade but their operating costs are 455 dollars. That's when its time to shutter your location or find cheaper lemons, Susie.

POTUS could divest the agency, and convert it to a private company that is publicly traded. This would not only "Make the Post Office Great Again"---because they wouldn't be able to burn mounds of cash (they made 450 BILLION in revenue but somehow ended up with NEGATIVE 5 BILLION (debt) meaning that they are wildly mismanaged to essentially STEAL money from the US Taxpayer)

450 Billion a year is going to be a huge windfall for taxpayers to NOT pay for. (i know that's not exactly right...but for the sake of argument)

USPS will have to be profitable otherwise it will fail, because corporations that lose money lose their shareholders and then they die. It's that simple. It's a sink or swim scenario. Right now USPS is a socialist, wildly underperforming dependent of the US taxpayer base.

Should the USPS become privatized, it will probably be forced to move to largely paperless in terms of letters and they will be forced to move towards a "docusign" model that maybe even uses cryptocurrency and/or cryptography---and if the US tries to ban or subvert cryptography, then the USPS can simply move offshore and then use a proxy server to manage that, outside the jurisdiction of the US. People don't want to pay 5 dollars to send a letter....businesses cannot afford this

It will force USPS to FINALLY start playing nice with UPS and FEDEX and other carriers. They will be competing with them and will have to drop their prices and improve their service in order to survive

I believe they will have to not just compete directly but compete differently

Meaning they will have to give MUCH MORE CONTROL to the Recipient rather than the SENDER, and so they'll essentially have software that can hijack the shipping costs and be paid DIRECTLY by the recipient rather than laundering the 'baked in' price of shipping from the vendor

IF they do this, they wiill be able to make mobile APPS that allow the recipient to coordinate in realtime with the shipper and rendeszvous with carriers who have their parcel (lets meet at the walmart)...

This app would allow the carrier of the parcel in the field to have 'temporary sms' or 'anonymous sms' to protect their privacy; and the same for the recipient...using a kind of shared temporary 2+ factor token strategy so that the carrier knows the recipient is the correct one

The recipient can show the chit / claimticket on the app, and then the carrier scans it from the RECPIEINT phone QR code and then hands the package to them to complete the delivery

This would be WAY WAY WAY more convenient to people than the way that shipping has worked (not worked) for decades.

The only way that Amazon / UPS can compete with this is to catch up with it....if they can. It's possible that USPS patents this system and prevents UPS from being able to do it

So then UPS can leverage their money to deliver by DRONE and then have an app that allows people to be tracked by Amazon once the notification is given that the drone is "on the way out for delivery" (ie: recipient given a window of time for the delivery to be completed)

Why am i going full autist on this?

I use delivery all the time and live on top of a steep mountain where they will not deliver. I've had MANY issues with delivery. Thankfully UPS has developed "SUREPOST" which allows UPS to ship to USPS post office boxes; otherwise I'd not be able to use shipping because of 1) porch pirates, 2) "porch pirates" in my case means they leave the shipment at the road, 1/5 of a mi from my cabin down a steep gravel driveway that UPS vans being 2WD and natural gas powered cannot make it up