The postal service is not "a dinosaur"

[Weltall]

I have no illusions that mail service will die in the immediate future, but the writing is on the wall: it's an obsolete service, used as much as it is because postage is far too cheap to support the operation. If postage rates were raised to a rate which would make the USPS solvent in theory, it still wouldn't work in practice, because people (and businesses) would simply send less mail. It's not just because personal letters are no longer in vogue, it's because snail mail is not a viable business model anymore, and it will only ever get worse.

You can deny the obvious all you want, but the writing is on the wall. Snail mail is going the way of the telegram and the landline telephone, and I want my tax dollars going towards funding infrastructure which will actually provide some future benefit. Give it another two decades at most, even if we spend money we don't have to bail out yet another service we really don't need, and you'll see, the future will bear my words out.