Drastic surgery needed for postal dinosaur  Our esteemed
politicians in Washington, D.C., never seem to publicly
acknowledge that one of the major causes of constant U.S. Postal
Service budget overruns (Page 1A, Feb. 7) is the highly
subsidized (by taxpayers), unrealistically low costs charged by
the Postal Service to process junk mail and advertising
(estimated at more than 50 percent of mail deliveries).  This
high-volume, low-priority junk mail is delivered at a fraction
of its true cost, and is zealously supported and promoted by an
influential group of lobbyists, who in turn support a large
number of politicos.  An increased charge to realistic costs for
junk mail and advertising would go a long way to solving the
U.S. Postal Service fiscal problem.  In the larger picture for
the U.S. Postal Service, thinking outside the box, or cube as it
might be known in Washington, D.C., my suggestion is to
outsource the mail deliveries to already profitable delivery
organizations such as FedEx or UPS.  Drastic surge