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In 1988, long before Mr. Trump was President, I was part of a team that worked on a review of the US Postal Service the focus, the short version, of which was to evaluate the overall efficiencies of the system and to make recommendations for their improvement. The process went on for a period of fourteen months and as the months accumulate it become increasingly clear that no amount of time or analysis was ever going to cure the inefficiencies of the Post Office and this was because the Postal Service, like mostly all government functions/operations, lacks one very simply overriding mandate: Financial, Performance and Operational Accountability. Government entities (each seemingly with an ever-increasing number of liberties) have become, ostensibly, self-mandated operations that rise to one and only one occasion: An ever-increasing annual budget, the one thing government does remarkably well.  Read more...