The smart thing for Congress to do would be to let USPS’s action stand and take it as a cue to address the Postal Service’s chronic problems. Certainly comprehensive reform legislation would be a better use of everyone’s time between now and August than disputing USPS’s plausible but aggressive interpretation of the law on Saturday delivery.

Oceans of ink have been spilled debating whether the Postal Service’s crisis is a self-inflicted one caused by Congress’s decision to order more than $5 billion per year in health-benefit prepayments — or the inevitable consequence of technological obsolescence and high fixed costs, especially labor costs.

We tend toward the latter view. But even that does not quite express USPS’s true dysfunction, which is rooted in a convoluted, unworkable governance structure
via Will the threat of five-day mail shock Congress into action on postal reform? Washington Post