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Willseyville, NY | reply to cdru
Re: Seek Alternatives Yea, but in this case, if the Post Office can't handle it, they ought to remove the law barring competition... |
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1 edit | said by jp10558:Yea, but in this case, if the Post Office can't handle it, they ought to remove the law barring competition... The issue surrouding the law is much more complex then just "if they can't do it the law shouldn't exist".
The issue at hand is not "can the post office handle it". The post office can handle the volume of mail. They handle 200m articles a day. The issue with the post office is whether it's economically viable to continue to run Saturday delivery. The USPS operating revenues have decreased as more and more companies switch to electronic information delivery, yet operating expense increases with inflation, transportation costs, benefits, etc. Privatizing first class delivery many experts say will just enlarge the issue, fragmenting the industry. I personally find it very hard to imagine that any company could reliably compete with the USPS both in terms of cost, delivery time, or even a fraction of the volume while keep a national delivery area. |
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said by jp10558:Yea, but in this case, if the Post Office can't handle it, they ought to remove the law barring competition... You're under the belief that UPS and FedEx would provide a comparable, flat rate service to every person in this country within 5-7 business days. I'm certain they would deliver your postcard for $5 instead of $0.25. |
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Willseyville, NY | said by morbo:said by jp10558:Yea, but in this case, if the Post Office can't handle it, they ought to remove the law barring competition... You're under the belief that UPS and FedEx would provide a comparable, flat rate service to every person in this country within 5-7 business days. I'm certain they would deliver your postcard for $5 instead of $0.25. Well, yea. But then what exactly is the harm in allowing the competition? No one would use a service that cost many times as much unless they really did need that delivered on a Saturday for some reaso
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00000 | FedEx and UPS will pick the sweetest, most profit making routes and leave vast portions of citizens uncovered or prohibitively expensive. So they would cherry pick routes and then leave the more expensive routes for the USPS to provide, at taxpayer expense.
I'm all for competition and level playing fields, but if UPS/FedEx want to play the game, they should have to play the entire game. |
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