I saw a quip in a recent article mentioning a law Congress passed that hamstrings the USPS from directly bidding against private enterprises like Fedex and UPS. Supposedly, Amazon plays that to their big advantage.
I can’t find anything further on that. Anyone have anything on this?
These are the shipping from all the private delivery companies who deliver to the local PO and have them deliver them the rest of the way home.
Horrible, especially to all the people who don’t have home mailing addresses.
“I saw a quip in a recent article mentioning a law Congress passed that hamstrings the USPS from directly bidding against private enterprises like Fedex and UPS. Supposedly, Amazon plays that to their big advantage.”
The “real problem” with the USPS is that they are now having, by law, to pay into their employee retirement plan in sufficient amounts to allow them to distribute benefits to their retirees. Their “retirees” are the biggest problem the USPS faces. As the picture changed for the use of “government-mandated mail service, the USPS was very slow to react to their real employee needs. At it’s zenith, the USPS had 780,000 employees (1988), but as we all know government agencies exist primarily to give unneeded jobs to people who will vote Democrat. As a consequence, right now the USPS probably has twice as many employees as it really needs. Current employment is 503,000 and it is going down. I have read that to suport it’s current business, it should be half of that number. The USPS is where a number of retired military people go so they can double dip on their retirements.
The other thing that should pi$$ you off is that rather than buying mail service trucks from the automakers, they want to design a new “special truck” that will supposedly “last longer” at a projected cost of $60,000 per unit. Just hope our military has wiser planners.