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To: Secret Agent Man
I'll let you in on a little secret. USPS is free to contract for transportation from anyone. They could save a bundle by pulling all the mail off the airlines (and UPS and FedEx) and simply send it by freight.

Not that you'd like it, but their relationship to UPS and FedEx is simply one of "express, baggage and freight". And it doesn't have to be as good as it is now.

SURFACE WORKS WELL in America ~ it's just not fast.

102 posted on 09/04/2011 6:09:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

To be honest it doesn’t bother me at all that usps contracts with ups and fedex. they must see some benefit in doing so to get their express and priority mail packages to where they need to go.

If it would be about the same time and less cost I wouldn’t mind how they shipped them just as long as they got there.

My earlier point is they go out of their way to say they aren’t government, and say they’re self sustaining, yet have billions of dollars of debt they say if Congress doesn’t fix it for them...it kind of deflates their prior claims. If you run up a 5.5 billion debt and then beg Congress to save you from it, you’re not self sustaining.


115 posted on 09/04/2011 6:27:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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