OP/ED: Postal Service In 'Desperate Trouble'

Former Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter outlines the over-legislation hurting the mail.

Our founders understood the critical role a post office would play as our nation developed.
The Continental Congress hired Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general in 1775. When the Constitution was adopted in 1789, it stated “Congress shall have the Power… To establish Post Offices and post Roads.”
Throughout our history, people have understood that the post office is critical for commerce, communications, security and convenience, and national unity.
I grew up, as did my parents and my own children, with a reliable postal service and terrific postal employees. These men and women— so many of them military veterans — have served quietly and proudly in many different jobs, all dedicated to getting the mail from its origin to its destination.

Hampton- North Hampton Patch