"washington journal" program kevin kosar, the public policy vice president r street institute to talk to us about in particular, broadly, the u.s. postal service headline,rticular this 11 postal service marks straight years of financial loss. kevin kosar, what is the r street institute and why are you interested in what is going on with the postal service. 11 straight years of financial r street institute is a think tank in washington, d.c., we cover a variety of issues, energy policy, criminal justice reform, postal ional reform and policy, which is something i learned at congressional research service, where i worked decade. host: the postal service loss, ing at a financial quasi government entity expected to turn a profit each year? service used tal to be a government aigence and to n 1970, it was rebirthed the postal service and gave it freedom that typical government said, you need to cover operating cost and for years, postal service did reasonably well at that, but for the last decade it's been a them. road for host: what is main reason behind driver es, the biggest of that? gu

james says, deliver the mail a week, monday, thursday and saturday, wild and wonderful asks kevin kosar, what any, are regulations on other ex?riers such as ups or fed guest: oh, well, like any other regulations ject to that a government entity would not be subject to. from ints you often hear private company system that heir delivery trucks can be ticketed for parking illegally, trucks.ith mail property is taxable, postal a perties are not, which is localities.tates and kim is here, welcome. caller: hi there. to work for the post gms, i don't gan know if you know about that place. they had great training there. was a technician, i was there when the ally simms were there, you know about them, i had a question, by the way, the post office in my line is almosthe always out the door when i go there, i don't know how they are hurting, but maybe that is just my town. don't a question that think you can answer, i thought being a sort of employer of the government, i remember being at post office and stand in lane. i was close by. there, cnn were on. on. and -- watch a station you can't stand

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