You'd be surprised. Millions of eBay sellers, Amazon book sellers, and other small online sellers, use USPS First Class Parcel rates, Media Mail, and Priority Mail Flat Rate. They depend on these sales for much and, in many cases, all of their income. UPS and FedEx are much too expensive for parcels of 2 lb or less. Close the Post Office and you will add not only the postal workers, but also these sellers, to the growing list of unemployed.
I don’t shop on line for much but when I do the delivery is almost always USPS—cheaper and just as fast as FedEx or brown.
What a crock!!! You are saying that the government, through the USPS, must subsidize these businesses. Are you sure you are posting on the right blog? These “businesses” need a below market ride for their shipping in order to survive? Well, so far as I am concerned, they need to go under right behind the USPS!!
>>You’d be surprised. Millions of eBay sellers, Amazon book sellers, and other small online sellers, use USPS First Class Parcel rates, Media Mail, and Priority Mail Flat Rate. They depend on these sales for much and, in many cases, all of their income. UPS and FedEx are much too expensive for parcels of 2 lb or less. Close the Post Office and you will add not only the postal workers, but also these sellers, to the growing list of unemployed.<<
BINGO!
We also have Ebay and Amazon seller accounts and it kills me that the general talking point that USPS IS EVIL-nonsense.
Their Express mail packaging system with free insurance and tracking has saved our company hundreds of thousands every year. Our domestic is UPS but international? Fedex and UPS are the rip-offs! We have lots of Japanese and Europeans clients that if we did not use USPS, our overhead would have killed us.