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The USPS has to ask permission from regulators to raise prices, unlike their more private counterparts.
by Consultant32452 7y ago
The USPS has to ask permission from regulators to raise prices, unlike their more private counterparts.
- ikeboy 7y agoAnd that is evaluated on a per market basis. The assertion that losing money on some services causes them to raise prices elsewhere is baseless. Even if there was a mechanism the numbers don't work - there's orders of magnitude more packages sent within the US than into the US from UPU.
- Consultant32452 7y agoI was commenting on your remark about USPS lacking pricing power. I wasn't really disagreeing with you, just pointing out some of the moat between them and pricing power.