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Turn the #USPS into the Federal Mail Exchange and **Stop the Financial Bleeding** From Carrier to Clearinghouse: A Conservative Plan for the Mail. This is not a management problem. It is a category problem. We have asked one institution to be two incompatible things at once. It is supposed to behave like a business, and it is also supposed to maintain a uniformed federal workforce built for a vanished world of daily letter mail. The result is the worst of both arrangements. Call that new institution the Federal Mail Exchange. The Federal Mail Exchange would not be a delivery company. It would be a clearinghouse and a purchasing agency. The actual sorting and physical delivery of mail to American homes would, in most places, be done by certified PRIVATE carriers. Now reset the floor. Suppose Congress rewrites the mandate so that every address is entitled to four routine mail deliveries per month, with no address going more than 10 calendar days without a basic mail drop. Multiply 170.4 million addresses by 48 delivery days and you get about 8.2 billion address-day delivery opportunities per year. **That is roughly an 85% reduction in the delivery obligation** Costs would NOT fall by 85%, because sorting, address management, security, and rural exceptions remain. Today, the cost of delivering mail to a remote ranch in Montana is silently socialized across every first class envelope in America. That hidden cross-subsidy is one of the principal reasons honest postal accounting is impossible. The Federal Mail Exchange would put rural subsidies on the budget line where they belong, where Congress can defend them or amend them. The most overlooked piece of the reform is what to do with the parcel business. USPS pulled $32.6 billion in parcel revenue in fiscal year 2025, and it competes directly with UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL, and a growing fleet of regional couriers. **There is no public reason the federal government should be running a parcel company, especially a money-losing one** **Selling or subcontracting the parcel operation would produce real proceeds** The clean model is unambiguous. Private carriers deliver packages. The Federal Mail Exchange administers universal basic mail. **The federal role is to guarantee, not to compete** There is a second virtue here, and it deserves to be stated plainly. **The current Postal Service is among the most heavily unionized institutions in the federal government**, with over 92% of its workforce belonging to a union. Federal Election Commission data shows that **roughly 90% of postal worker political contributions flow to #Democrat candidates** **A federal agency shouldn't be used as a fund-raising machine for ONE political party** https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/turn-usps-into-the-federal-mail-exchange