My blue box

Do you have a US Postal Box in your neighborhood? This is my blue box. It is four and a half miles from my house with my post office being another 7 miles. When I was growing up there seemed to be a blue mail box every few blocks but now the street corner mailbox is disappearing just like the phone booth did. Both are casualties of the digital age. Everybody pays their bills online and sends emails. There is very little first class mail and that is forcing the US Postal Service to remove the blue boxes. The Post Office was really never interested in letters, they make their money off of bulk mail and packages, neither of which goes into the blue boxes. The Postal service is not supposed to be a business! They are a tax supported government service that is supposed to provide service to all citizens not just profitable ones. I am getting sick and tired of the commercialization of our government. What is going to be next to disappear? Will it be sidewalks because kids don't play hop-scotch anymore or maybe street corners because people don't hang out there anymore? Where would all the crack dealers go if there were no street corners or side walks?
In a couple of generations there won't be any blue boxes left. They will all be stashed away in a big building somewhere because the government never throws anything away. If I live another 30 years I'll probably hear a father trying to explain blue boxes to his son. "Ya see little Billy, back before we had anti-matter transport systems, mail had to be moved by people. A man would visit this blue box everyday and pick up letters that had been setting inside the blue box for several hours". Little Billy will reply "Dad whats a letter"