Regarding the Dec. 15 front-page article “Trump explores overhaul of USPS”:
The U.S. Postal Service connects us all. Privatizing this vital institution would be both unconstitutional and a bad idea.
.Say what you will about the Founders, they realized the value of a Postal Service that enables national communication. A letter from Nome, Alaska, to West Palm Beach, Florida, costs the same to mail as a letter from West Palm Beach to, say, Mar-a-Lago in the city of (just) Palm Beach. This is genius. Many of us receive vital medications and election ballots only by mail. The Postal Service is not, nor was it ever intended to be, a for-profit service. The government is not a business; it exists to serve the American people.
Many of those soon to be in office in the next administration refer to themselves as “originalists.” Let’s encourage them to review Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7, which has been in the Constitution since 1787, and then find something else to occupy their time.
Bill Nye, Los Angeles
