At Hearing on Future of Postal Service, No Lack of Despondency

A congressional hearing on the future of the U.S. Postal Service can be one depressing experience.

The sky outside the Rayburn House Office Building was bright Thursday morning, but it was all gloom and doom in Room 2154.

Members of a Committee on Oversight and Government Reform panel explored novel ways the Postal Service might pull itself from deep debt — selling birthday cards, for instance — but what they heard was apprehension about the future and dismal repo...