> Employees at the local US post office claim
that the post office is no longer a
> part of the USA government (though their website has both a .com and .gov
> domain and though they are listed in the government pages of the local phone
> books) and I've seen TV advertising by the USA post office. Years have gone by
> without me seeing any TV ads by the USA government, and thus I suspect that the
> USA post office is not part of the USA government. That may explain why they
> don't seem to use metric at all.
> part of the USA government (though their website has both a .com and .gov
> domain and though they are listed in the government pages of the local phone
> books) and I've seen TV advertising by the USA post office. Years have gone by
> without me seeing any TV ads by the USA government, and thus I suspect that the
> USA post office is not part of the USA government. That may explain why they
> don't seem to use metric at all.
This may shed some light on whether the post office
is part of the government or not:
