
The United States Post Office is an independent agency of the executive branch of the federal government providing mail and package delivery to all areas of the country and the world, and is explicitly authorized in the Constitution.
In 1775, During the Second Continental Congress, Ben Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General, Then in 1872 the post office became
a cabinet-level department, later to become the United States Postal Service, an independent agency, in 1970..In the early 1980s many direct tax subsidies to the USPS were reduced or eliminated with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with disabled and overseas voters.
It was never intended to make a profit for anyone, but to be a service to We The People.