Will Patchin Place Post Office survive?

Post Office cuts may spell the end of small neighborhood stations like this one on East Tenth Street near Sixth Avenue in the North Village.

It's funny, it seems like such  a nice little local post office but I remember one time I was there with a woman from Prague ( we had met in the Village for lunch and she had a package she had to mail so I took here here). (This was back before the Russians had finally left and Havel and had come to power).

The post office employee at the window was a very mean, grumpy old man as it turned out who bawled her out on how she had to use a different kind of tape to seal the package etc...really uncalled for abuse.

I apologized to her for it and he dismissed this with a wave of the hand, "EVERY post office person is like that in Prague, we are quite used to it," she said cheerfully.

Well, people may not go to the Post Office for well mannered employees but just to get their business done...but what is the future of the U.S. Post Office now?

(Have to note, I usually do not discuss politics but I have ultra-libertarian friend who thinks Post Office is huge waste of his tax dollars and wants it done away with ...I argued that a lot of people depend on it, they cannot just use other services like FedEx etc.)