The postal service is not "a dinosaur"

[Weltall]

I'm curious as to what prompted this rant.

Is the USPS a public service people actually need? The average person doesn't do a whole lot of sending letters these days. Most mail carried comes from groups, organizations, businesses, etc., and why should the public subsidize that? If sending unsolicited credit card applications, collections statements and other kinds of junk mail becomes significantly more expensive, it will force a curbing of activities nobody really likes anyway. It will be more expensive for the average person, too, but how often do you actually send mail? A few times a year?

Paper mail is something that needs to die anyway, it's slow, unnecessary and absurdly wasteful.