How the Postal Service Subsidizes The Wall Street Journal - and Why It Should Stop

In an error-filled editorial, The Wall Street Journal chided the U.S. Postal Service Saturday for not acting more like a business and for being too slow to cut costs. Be careful what you wish for. “If this were a private business, the obvious response to these losses would be urgent cost-cutting to avoid insolvency,” the editorial said in response to USPS’s latest quarterly numbers. Good point. Let’s start with cutting the Postal Service’s subsidization of the Journal.

“(The) Wall Street Journal gives the USPS all of the addresses that they can’t service with alternate delivery and then expects to receive next-day