[babyface00]

What examples do you have that make you come to that conclusion?

Since private carriers are banned from providing mail service, the only comparison that can be made is package delivery.

In my experience USPS is the worst package delivery service. They lose about 5% of the packages, the packages can't be tracked (until the next day), and the delivery times are clouds of probability.

UPS and Fedex have never lost a package of mine, always delivery on time, and the package can typically be tracked within minutes of it changing steps in the shipping process.

Also, in some cases, UPS and Fedex can actually reroute packages in transit - an impossibility for USPS.

For me, the savings shipping USPS aren't worth unless I don't particularly care if the package makes it to its destination.

[muawiyah]

Package delivery started as a Post Office Department "experiment" in the 1920s.

It pretty much failed, mostly due to a failure of Congress to provide suitible capital support.

UPS, on the other hand, was a local package and furniture delivery business in Seattle. Some Post Office Department managers who were upset that Congress wouldn't support their scheme to "fix" parcel delivery for once and all, bought it out and turned it into today's UPS. First thing they did was dump the furniture moving part.

Fed Ex is pretty much the idea of a fellow who borrowed it from his roommate in college whose father, the postmaster of Gary, Indiana, had come up with it.

Mail delivery really shouldn't mix with parcel delivery, or furniture moving.