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USPS is often faster and cheaper than private delivery companies, delivers to all addresses (unlike FedEx and UPS, which contract to USPS in rural areas), and w
by notJim 7y ago
USPS is often faster and cheaper than private delivery companies, delivers to all addresses (unlike FedEx and UPS, which contract to USPS in rural areas), and would be profitable if not hamstrung by pension funding restrictions from Congress that are more stringent than private companies.
- marcrosoft 7y agoUSPS is almost never cheaper than UPS or FedEx except for areas highly subsidized (AK and HI) and light weight international items. USPS has special (and anticompetitive) arrangements with foreign countries that UPS and FedEx can't have. Even with the special arrangements USPS is more expensive and less reliable than private carriers.