Destroyer of the environment“One of the things the government can't do is manage anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both are bankrupt.” These are the words of Lee Iacocca, and although Iacocca was sarcastic about the power of government, what about the post office (post office quotes)? Is the beautiful, elegant, efficient post office we had in the 1800s still part of our world today? According to PSB.Org the post office is on the path to complete deterioration (Lee). The US Post Office in our society today is not what we knew, the demand for paper mail from the USPS has declined, they cannot thrive in a declining economy, and they have cases complaining of junk mail. The Constitution was ratified, giving Congress the right to establish the post office and post roads, as seen in Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. The post office was enlarged and continued for up to a year later, in September 1789, when President George Washington, directed the first postmaster general, Samuel Osgood (The Constitution and the Post Office). At this point there were seventy-five post offices and over 2,000 miles of post roads already in existence. The congressional discussion at the time was about where to place roads and offices within the states. Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe were unsure whether Congress had the power to establish post offices, but Judge Joseph Story stated in his Commentaries on the United States Constitution that Congress had this power considering that the phrase “establish” means the means of create and similarly designate streets. Once roads and offices are built, they are subject to the laws of s...... middle of paper ...... subtract any further material from a given sender. "If you had asked me my personal opinion on the post office before completing it I would have been on board with the people trying to fight for its life. Although the United States Post Office is a historic monument in America, it actually does not it's more necessary. With the amount of money it's losing, the amount of trees it's destroying, and the speed at which technology is advancing, I think it's really hurting our world more than it's helping it locals that are able to send our mail just as productively as the government run office. I am in favor of saving the trees, more than in favor of keeping something that has been around for hundreds of years of the United States, our world would benefit environmentally, economically and financially.