Shutting down?

I was going through my daily ritual of looking at the interests tabs on Yahoo and I saw that the government wants to shut down the postal services..they're kidding right?? How can they seriously shut down the post office? That's like cutting everyone off from their phones. It's a rediculous idea. The postal service has played such a major part in our society. The reason they want to shut down is understandable though. The postal service has such a huge debt right now that if they don't pay the however many millions of dollars they owe by the end of the month,they most likely will be closed down. My question is what happens to all the mail? How does this affect the pricing to send a letter? How will this affect online shopping? All in all,I feel the government definatley need to come up with a better solution.