A What If Discussion About The Post Office

With ever increasing online purchases leading to more mail, (especially packages) , a shorter delivery schedule for the Post Office would probably just make more business for UPS, Fedex, Etc.

Also, no matter how the post office cuts costs or raises more money, (like postage increases), they never get ahead. I would assume customers would just end up with less service and a Post Office that is still broke and in the red. After all, less service and higher postage costs is what the Post Office has been delivering for years.

OP notes Sunday delivery, but that is done by the USPS at the insistence of Amazon. Further, there is something wrong with the rate structure if FEDEX and UPS regularly hand off to the USPS for last mile delivery.

Nope.

You've never divvied-up the errands with: "I'm going there, anyway, but for you it is a separate trip" ?




1) The USPS did think that it has the authority to reduce a service, and

2) The USPS did not get the prior cooperation of (political cover from) a third party commissioned by either the legislative or executive branch.

Yeah, I know, the USPS is supposed to be its own third party ...

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey