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A big part of that "efficiency" is the rules required by Congress (daily mail delivery to everywhere). If it wasn't required it wouldn't be provided and that "e
by jonknee 12y ago
A big part of that "efficiency" is the rules required by Congress (daily mail delivery to everywhere). If it wasn't required it wouldn't be provided and that "efficiency" would go away.
Maybe parcels can save them, but it will require a lot of change because unlike the junk mail that currently keeps the lights [halfway] on, packages take up quite a bit of space. I regularly see UPS unloading more packages for a single building than would fit in a mail truck.
- ewzimm 12y agoYes, the rules established by Congress in 1792. I don't think anyone would argue that organization has much in common with the current Congress. No organization in the world other than the USPS is forced to pre-fund pensions with $5.5 billion annually. Imagine if Amazon.com had to play by those rules. Also, I'm not convinced by your argument that a $66 billion/year organization is going to fail because their trucks aren't big enough. The USPS actually carries a lot of packages for UPS and FedEx.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoFedex also carries most of express/priority mail for USPS: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-for-postal-service-for-10-5-billion.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-23/fedex-to-fly-mail-f...