If the US Government can't make the USPS work how do they expect to suceed at Health Care?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/03/news/companies/usps_postal_service_privatize.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009080410

Before we turn over more of our health care system to the Federal government why don't we first clean up some of our current messes like the US Postal Service. If we can't make this monopoly work how do we expect to manage something as complex as health care for 330+ million Americans and illegal alliens?

Excellent article in Fortune.