Germany privatized its postal service and now has one of the best postal services in the world. DHL is the German postal service. Meanwhile, the US Postal serv

Germany privatized its postal service and now has one of the best postal services in the world. DHL is the German postal service. Meanwhile, the US Postal service is a quasi-government agency that is predictably a mess. On one hand it is supposed to be self-sufficient but on the other hand it is burdened with federal agency restrictions or limitation. And, it distorts the mail market in general by having a government granted monopoly on regular mail.