On Saving Snail Mail

I am undecided on whether or not the US Postal Service should be saved or allowed to go the way of the VHS, but I thought this article from the Atlantic made a compelling argument. Here are some highlights:

The Postal Service Is a Civic Institution, Not a Business

the U.S. Post Office [is] older than the Navy, the Marines, and the Declaration of Independence 

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 saw the operation of information channels as a core function of government: the power "to establish post offices and post roads" is one of the explicitly named grants included among the enumerated powers of Congress 

Should the Post Office cease to exist, we will lose the last public guarantor of free communication in the United States.