02-07-2013, 03:48 PM
Ken:
The USPS is legally chartered to provide service to everybody in the US regardless.
UPS and FedEx and the like provide service in densely populated or between densely populated markets. And for this they charge a premium.
They do not have to provide service to all Americans wherever in the US.
UPS and FedEx skim the lucrative markets.
The main reason that the USPS is in financial difficulty now is that a conservative Congressional majority in 2006 passed a Law that required the USPS to fund pensions for its employees for 75 years out within the following 10 or 15 years.
The USPS is legally chartered to provide service to everybody in the US regardless.
UPS and FedEx and the like provide service in densely populated or between densely populated markets. And for this they charge a premium.
They do not have to provide service to all Americans wherever in the US.
UPS and FedEx skim the lucrative markets.
The main reason that the USPS is in financial difficulty now is that a conservative Congressional majority in 2006 passed a Law that required the USPS to fund pensions for its employees for 75 years out within the following 10 or 15 years.