>>>>Actually I think that postal service does pretty good job (compared to everything else government does). Didn't a comedian say "where else someone would carry your letter to California for 40 cents?" <g>.
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>>>>But the postal service is bleeding money - our money. Private enterprise could do it cheaper and more efficiently.
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>>>>I remember when we were living in England, I sent my sister a case of smarties for her birthday in November. I wondered why she never thanked me. Well, I found out when we were visiting her the following February. The smarties finally showed up 3 months after I had sent them! I answered the door for the post man.
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>>>I absolutely defy you to find a private company that could do it better and cheaper. Go ahead, start one. We'll wait.
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>>You mean like FedEx or UPS - both of which would turn themselves inside-out for a chance to handle standard mail?
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>..but FedEX and UPS do not have to deliver to every address every day either. The USPS has to deal with that and all the various pieces of junk mail and postcards and such.

And I bet they can scale to handle that. I bet they can do it without the watchful eye of the US Government which controls the purse strings of the USPS no matter how they deny it.

Of course the scale will also scale back as more and more physical mail is replaced by E-Mail/E-Commerce until time of war with space capable weapons.