Could virus crisis kill debt-laden Postal Service?

The coronavirus crisis has put an extra strain on the US Postal Service, which is already under a mountain of debt. [AFP]

For many Americans, checking the mailbox is a daily ritual, a constant in a quickly changing world that can yield anything from wedding invitations to tax audits to new clothes.

But as with many ordinary things as the coronavirus crisis unfolds, the US Postal Service -- already compromised by a mountain of debt -- has a most uncertain future.