Imma say two things that are only vaguely related because, I dunno, the subject came up at it doesn't look like it's going to go anywhere else productive so fuckit.

1: I was thinking about the Post Office thing, and you know, I don't know if you [i]can[/i] really pry it from the government. I know that's not what [@SleepingSilence] is driving at, but the thought just seems worth saying anyway I guess. One of the big reasons the government is so deeply concerned with the Post Office is because it is still a useful government program [u]for the government[/u]. Like, all the buying stamps to mail letters that used to go on, that was paying to keep the service in place and all of that, and now personal mail like you said is being taken up by the internet. But the other purpose of the post office is to have an organization in place that the government can use as an inter-office courier service. I know the post office and the IRS work in tandem from my time being employed by the latter, and you can see how that would be extended. So even in the odd event the Post Office was privatized, it's replacement would probably end up in a comparably sembiatic relationship with the government for that reason. That might also explain (aside from employement stats) why the government is so worried about losing it. 

2: Also, regarding the FCC because it keeps coming up, their main job isn't censorship. That's just something they are known for. Their main job is to maintain and police laws regarding the use of communication networks. The original purpose comes from back in the old days when analog broadcast signals were king. Broadcast signals aren't solid things, and there are ways to overpower them, hence the use of policing. I suppose the most famous example of overpowering a broadcast signal is the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs]Max Headroom incident[/url]. 

But even that particular incident isn't their main goal, since an individual managing to overpower WGN's broadcast is altogether odd. The main sort of thing they would be focused on is, say, keeping NBC from putting up a few towers and overriding all of their competition's channels in a specific area so that theirs is the only signal coming in. They presumably deal with equivalent shit regarding satellite, cell-phone tower usage, and cable. So there is a reason for that particularly organization to exist, even if, you know, they make you take a tinkle when you want to take a piss.