Though the U.S. Postal Service is older than the country itself, delivers to 153 million homes and businesses six and increasingly seven days a week, and consistently ranks as the public’s most trusted federal agency with 80-plus percent approval, misleading “conventional wisdom” persists.

Some of it, unfortunately, was contained in a recent Washington Examiner commentary piece. It evoked “peril for the taxpayers” and cited a “broken business model” responsible for a “deficit of more than $50 billion since 2007.”