The U.S. also has an additional problem where it doesn’t really agree on what USPS is supposed to be. Half the country believes it should be a public service a

The U.S. also has an additional problem where it doesn’t really agree on what USPS is supposed to be. Half the country believes it should be a public service and therefore it should serve everyone even if they’re unprofitable subsidized by government money. The remaining half believes it should be a self sustaining service that can compete with the likes of UPS and FedEx. However, they’re unwilling to accept the necessary destruction of mailing routes this would require (its hard to see how shipping letters to any non urban core would be profitable and/or how shipping prices wouldn’t rise to far above what FedEx/UPS charge today, for all the services, because of the next group). The final, but probably most powerful, group are private logistics companies that absolutely love the fact that they can offload their unprofitable routes and services onto USPS. USPS becoming a self sustaining service would mean that all the end-user costs would rise for FedEx/UPS as well, since they will no longer be able to offload the most expensive parts of their service to USPS anymore.