Report: Maintain USPS monopoly

Moving the mail service to a five-day week instead of a six-day week and closing small post offices would yield billions of dollars worth of savings for the U.S. Postal Service.

But Americans would not stand for such changes, the Postal Service said in a report to the Postal Regulatory Commission released last week. The Postal Service said it will not seek such dramatic changes; instead, it called on Congress to preserve the Postal Service’s current mail monopoly and universal service obligations.
The commission is an independent agency that oversees major changes to postal service, including rate changes. It will issue a final report on the universal service obligation in December.