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"USPS has a government granted and enforced monopoly on mail." What? Does Fedex and UPS know?

• jonknee 15y ago
  Yes, which is why no one else delivers non-urgent mail. You'll get shut down by the postal inspector.
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  • digikata 15y ago
    No one else delivers mail to a post box. But private enterprises don't have many barriers here - they are free to convince their customers to accept delivery elsewhere, or put up a private delivery box - many newspapers do it this way. Companies have already picked off the most profitable areas of mail delivery, overnight mail and packages manage to deliver to your doorstop. The USPS is stuck with mandated delivery scope which was taken on by our founding fathers. That mandate could be debated, but making this a private vs public efficiency polemic seems a little strained.