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One function of the United States government is to provide a mail service for the people of the United States. Our current government has vested the sole duties of providing mail service to the United States Postal Services, which is an independent federal corporation (Legal Information Institute, n.d). This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of housing the postal service function in an independent public body, the executive departments, and the Executive Office of the president. Furthermore, this essay will explain who are the beneficiaries of housing the postal service function in each of the executive departments.
The United States Postal Service is an independent federal corporation where the service of providing mail (Legal Information Institute, n.d). A disadvantage of having the postal service located in an independent executive agency is that they sometimes there is weak management in public bodies compared to managers who work in private industries (Bishoni, n.d). According to Shafritz, Russell, and Borick (2010) the benefit of having a service, such as the postal service, in an independent federal corporation is that the corporation can generate its own revenue (p.91). Independent Federal Corporations are self-supporting and are able to operate as commercial businesses (Shafritz et al., 2010, p. 91). To illuminate, the United States Postal Service generates its own revenue from selling “postal items,” rather than using taxpayer’s money (Longley, n.d). According to Shafritz et al. (2010) most independent executive agencies have to submit a budget request to the Office of Management and Budget located in the Executive Office of the president (p.91).
According to O’Hara’s lecture (2009) government corpora...

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...c body such as the United States is able to expericene some autonomy and acts as a commercial buisness. As a member of the executive department the postal department would have a say in the creation of legislation through the president and congress. Lastly through the Executive Office of the president the postal service would be directly under the president where it would help the president as well as directly influence legislation. One question is whether postal services is important enough to be housed that high in the executive branch. I believe that it is not and that our current United States Postal Service does an okay job. Postal services in early United States history was more important that it is today. If the postal services were housed at the cabinenet level today it would not be as important than other cabinents that deal with our country’s defenses.

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