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The duopoly of private shippers charge more than 30x for letter delivery within the US (and still substantially more than USPS for most package services) and th
by tehwebguy 6y ago
The duopoly of private shippers charge more than 30x for letter delivery within the US (and still substantially more than USPS for most package services) and those prices are surely as low as they are because USPS drives them down.
- jccooper 6y agoUSPS has a legal monopoly on letter service, save for "extremely urgent material". All private document delivery must therefore be Express-class. It's not reasonable to compare FexEx Express to USPS First Class. USPS Express and FedEx Overnight for documents are essentially the same price, even though FedEx has a higher standard of service. (Which is not surprising, because FedEx runs the backbone of USPS Express.) FedEx and UPS parcel prices generally beat USPS above a certain fairly small weight, even at retail prices. I'm happy to have USPS around, and I do a lot of business with them as they're the better option in certain circumstances, but let's not pretend their pricing is particularly magical.