>>>>"If you think about it UPS and FedEx are doing just fine...it's the post office that's always having problems."
>>>>http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-its-the-post-office-thats-always-having-problems/
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>>>>I couldn't have said it better myself...wait...I believe I've made this exact point several times before.
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>>>>Anyhow, now that He's caught up to my page I assume He'll stop all this talk of a government plan.
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>>>>Holding my breath...
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>>>The reason the post office has problems is they are required to serve everyone. FedEx makes money because they can cater to only those who are willing to pay extra for extra service. If FedEx were required to deliver packages for everyone in the country for a relative pittance they would have problems, too.
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>>That's the point! The "pittance" charged is dictated not by the market but by politicians, as a result the USPS is bankrupt every year. The private sector would do a better job, but they are price-fixed out of the market.
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>You are aware the USPS is in the private sector, right? It ceased being a government agency some time ago (20 years?). Granted, it is more heavily regulated than most parts of the private sector.

Ummm, Mike. Huh?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service sets policy, procedure, and postal rates for services rendered, and has a similar role to a corporate board of directors. Of the eleven members of the Board, nine are appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate (see 39 U.S.C. § 202). The nine appointed members then select the United States Postmaster General, who serves as the board's tenth member, and who oversees the day to day activities of the service as Chief Executive Officer (see 39 U.S.C. § 202–203). The ten-member board then nominates a Deputy Postmaster General, who acts as Chief Operating Officer, to the eleventh and last remaining open seat.

The USPS is often mistaken for a government-owned corporation (e.g., Amtrak). Indeed in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that hinged on whether the USPS was a corporation or not.

But the USPS is not a corporation. It is legally defined as an "independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States," (39 U.S.C. § 201) and is wholly owned by the government and controlled by the Presidential appointees and the Postmaster General. As a quasi-governmental agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail.

Supporting the status of the USPS as a government corporation, in 2004 the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Postal Service cannot be sued under antitrust laws, because US anti-trust law (the Sherman Antitrust Act, for example), does not allow the federal government - of which the USPS is part - to be sued. [17][18] The U.S. Supreme Court has also upheld the USPS's statutory monopoly on access to letterboxes against a First Amendment freedom of speech challenge; it thus remains illegal in the U.S. for anyone other than the employees and agents of the USPS to deliver mailpieces to letterboxes marked "U.S. Mail."[19]