Color me unsurprised...

Color me unsurprised...  How the U.S. Post Office killed digital mail – an object lesson in how a government bureaucracy can crush an innovative entrepreneur.

One quote from U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe in this story really caught my eye:

“You disrupt my service and we will never work with you.  You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers.  Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.”

That's enough reason right there to privatize the U.S. Post Office.  A private vendor would very quickly figure out who the real customer is, once that bulk mail subsidy disappeared.

And it occurs to me that one of those “junk mailers” would be the U.S. Congress with their franking privilege (free mail).  I see red every time I get one of those in my mail ... my tax dollars paying to help a bozo incumbent  stay in office...