Try mailing something to Canada if you want a good example of
inefficiency. Mailing to the west coast of the USA from the east coast
is 3 days. The same thing from the east coast of the US to Vancouver is
10 days.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/20/2013 7:17 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> The US postal service is actually very efficient when you consider the
> enormous volume of mail it handles. The USA has 320,000,000 people, far
> more than ANY country in Europe. The reason it has financial problems is
> because of political meddling by congress. Companies like UPS and FedEx
> want the Postal Service to be shut down. They lobby (bribe) politicians to
> do so, but the USPS is one of the very few institutions of government that
> the constitution REQUIRES the government to operate. So, congress passes
> laws requiring the USPS to do things that cost a lot of money, like
> keeping far more money in their pension fund than they will actually need
> to pay postal workers their pensions, while at the same time regulating
> postal rates to make sure the USPS cannot generate the income needed to
> fund this stuff.
>
> Remember, also, that when you ship overseas, the USPS does not deliver it
> to the final destination. They fly it to the other country and hand it to
> that country's postal service to deliver.
>
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