The notion that the Postal Service serves remote areas that private couriers do not is a canard.
On Mackinac Island, Michigan, for instance, UPS, Fed Ex and DHS all make home deliveries. The Post Office does not.
The notion that the Postal Service serves remote areas that private couriers do not is a canard. [ . . . ]On Mackinac Island, Michigan, for instance, UPS, Fed Ex and DHS all make home deliveries. The Post Office does not.
There are at least five Post Offices on tiny Mackinac island serving its 500 inhabitants. You might have well claimed that subdivisions with a row of boxes on the end don't qualify as home delivery. A greater number are not served at all by UPS in Alaska. UPS and FedEx are primarily PACKAGE services. They don't do the wholesale send a letter for 50 cents thing. If the USPS monopoly went away overnight, I doubt they would do it then, either.
The USPS, UPS and FedEx share resources in a way that make good use of each organization's strengths. UPS certainly uses the USPS to deliver its packages in rural locations.