The Postal Service Is Supposed to Be The Post Office

I remember when a postage stamp cost two cents, yes, $.02.  The Post Office was profitable to the point of supporting itself and contributing greatly to the financing of modes of transporting the mail, as well as other cargo and people.
Now, the Post Office is the Postal Service and has operated in the red for almost as long as I can recall.  I believe that it can be pin pointed to 1971, when the Post Office became the Postal Service.  That was when unionization was allowed for the first time relative to the federal government and when the position of Postmaster General was stripped of its Presidential Cabinet status. That also began the current and continuing, politically correct era of hiring  postal employees based on status circumstance, rather than by ability to perform
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Though the public service subsidy from the federal government ended in 1983, the same year that zip plus four was instituted, the Postal Service currently cries for governmental money, as it has done pretty much  every year since then and is now calling for the elimination of long standing services, like six day a week delivery.  And it charges 2400% more for its basic service than it did when I was a kid.  It is time; it is past time to do something to reestablish the Post Office as a means of communication and transportation improvement as it once was.  From the revolutionary period into the twentieth century, the Post Office did just that.  And it did so profitably.  That, along with the fact that "establishing post offices and post roads" is one of those very few Constitutionally mandated functions of the federal government is why I propose, that as part of President Romney's reorganization of the federal government, the present day Transportation Department and the quasi-governmental Postal Servce be combined to form a new, non-unionized United States Post Office with Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin as the nation's first Postmistress General, a Cabinet level position with reestablishment of its departmental seniority of fifth in line behind State, Treasury, Defense and Justice.    The Postmaster or Postmistress General will be responsible for overseeing all governmental matters relative to transportation, particularly the profitable and timely transport of the physical mail to all physical addresses in the nation and to foreign postal authorities.  To ensure against fiscal failings of the past and to promote productivity and profitablity, The Post Office will be mandated to be operated in a paramilitary style of pride, precision and professionalism, directed by a General, rather than by a Secretary.