 
 <prompt> text: ```Make use of di article to answer di questions.

Di United States Postal Service (USPS; wey dem also sabi as di Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) na independent agency of di United States federal government wey dey responsible for providing postal service for di United States. E dey one of di few government agencies wey dey explicitly authorized by di United States Constitution.

Di U.S. Mail trace im roots go back to 1775 during di Second Continental Congress, wen dem appoint Benjamin Franklin as di first postmaster general. Di Post Office Department na im dem create for 1792 from Franklin's operation, e come dey elevated to cabinet-level department for 1872, and e come transform for 1971 into di U.S. Postal Service as an agency of di U.S. government.

Di USPS as of February 2015 get 617,254 active employees and dem operate 211,264 vehicles for 2014. Di USPS na di operator of di largest civilian vehicle fleet for di world. Di USPS dey legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. Di USPS still get exclusive access to letter boxes wey dey marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes for di United States, but now dem dey compete against private package delivery services, like United Parcel Service and FedEx.

Since di early 1980s, many of di direct tax subsidies to di Post Office (with di exception of subsidies for costs associated with di disabled and overseas voters) don reduce or eliminate in favor of indirect subsidies, in addition to di advantages wey dey associated with government-enforced monopoly on di delivery of first-class mail. Since di 2006 all-time peak mail volume, after wey Congress pass di Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (wey mandate $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a requirement wey pass that of other government and private organizations), revenue drop sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume, wey make di postal service dey look for other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit. Di USPS lose $5.5 billion for fiscal year 2014 and $5.1 billion for 2015, and its revenue na $67.8 billion for 2014 and $68.9 billion for 2015.

1. USPS get competition?
2. Who?
3. USPS dey change prices based on location?
4. Wetin allow USPS to exist?
5. Dem offer retirement benefits?
6. Dem dey make profit?
7. How dem fit afford to offer their employees these benefits?
8. Wetin cause customers' uses of their services to drop?
9. When shipping dey at its busiest?
10. Wetin physical thing dem get exclusive access to?
11. Wetin service dem get exclusive access to?
12. Who be di first head of the organization?
13. Dem use im work for future iterations?``` <response>: ```1. Yes
2. United Parcel Service
3. No
4. United States Constitution.
5. Yes
6. No
7. Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
8. recession-influenced declining mail volume
9. 2006
10. letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail"
11. first-class mail
12. Benjamin Franklin
13. Yes``` 