And generally support anything that'd privatize or reduce any government function or weaken unions...in this case the USPS is the biggest union employer in the nation, and right wingers know that giving more power to private carriers like nonunion UPS/Fedex will weaken union.

Also autopay.

So many more ways to get to people rather than through paper.

It's a pipe dream to think junk mail will keep steady in volume keeping funding at a decent level.

Moreover the forever stamp makes it possible to buy a huge pile of stamps early on, pushing forward receipt of funds and leaving less funding for the future.

They are not disinterested spectators. If USPS can not deliver print advertising on Saturdays, newspapers can. The elimination of Saturday mail delivery can only help their bottom lines.

Also, most newspapers have gone through multiple rounds of cutbacks themselves due to technological change and tend to conflate their experiences with the current challenges confronting the Postal Service. Given their own traumatic experience, it is unsurprising that they emphasize the technological story (internet) while downplaying the critical importance of PAEA and congressional sabotage.

We do have Saturday and often Sunday parcel deliveries during the Xmas season.