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You can’t use Fedex or UPS or DHL?
by robbiemitchell 9y ago
You can’t use Fedex or UPS or DHL?
- ac29 9y agoInternational shipment of small parcels is very expensive via those carriers. Probably on the order of $50-100 for a small box.
- pulisse 9y agoProving the ridiculousness of the claim that the USPS is a monopoly that extorts its customers.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoSince the USPS has a legal monopoly on shipping below the price floor that applies to other carriers... that claim would appear to be completely correct?
- thaumasiotes 9y agoSure you can, but my understanding is that all non-USPS postal services must obey a legally mandated price floor, which prevents them from competing with USPS on cost.
- wutbrodo 9y agoIf I'm not mistaken you have this backwards. USPS is the one subject to a price floor that's tied in some way to cost, since they don't have the profitability constraints that UPS/Fedex do. EDIT: Never mind, there are apparently price floors enforced on both USPS and private postal companies.