For years as costs have risen manufacturers have coped with how to sell their products. We have all seen the half gallon carton of ice cream lose several ounces or 3 pound can of coffee that only has 2.5 pounds. We are visually fooled into thinking we are getting the same product. Well the post office is thinking of taking a cue from these businesses. There is a proposal to eliminate Saturday deliveries, same price less service.
If this goes through they better hope it doesn't lead to a further exodus away from the postal service. People may after all seek other alternatives and find they don't need the U.S. mail service.
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That's the problem with the postal service -- as a government institution, they're partially freed from competition, and therefore from the consequences of bad management.
ReplyDeleteFedEx and UPS seem to do pretty well. Maybe we can simply privatize the post office entirely and be spared its troubles.