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(and UPS didnt get "rights" to deliver packages to address till the 40s/50s, before they could only do businesses.and Fedex is from 1970s.if the postal service could operate like another business it wouldn't be a monopoly (you do know some places, you have to have a mailbox for your mail and one for newspaper cuz its illegal for the newspaper company to use it? wow) Government monopolies are always constrained because they are governed and run by bureaucrats. It's been set-up for failure by being expected to operate under the constraints of both. If the Postal Service were allowed to either operate as any other private business, or be funded as any other government agency, it wouldn't be in such trouble.

It cannot reduce or increase business hours as the market demands. The Postal Service has hours of operation set by law.

It's an absolute travesty that no private business would have to endure.ĢE). The Postal Service is so rampant with unionized employees that under-perform, that non-union workers from temporary agencies are brought in, and paid minimum wage with no benefits to pick-up the slack. It is extremely difficult to fire federal union employees, even ones who are performing poorly. With the advent of the internet this demand generated by bulk mail evaporated almost over night, but the Postal Service could not downsize its labor force with the drop in demand, as any private business would.ĢD). During the late 80s and early 90s, before the advent of the internet, the US Postal Service saw a dramatic expansion of personnel to accommodate increases in bulk mailing that occurred from relaxation of credit laws and rules. As a government agency, the US Postal Service is prevented by law from laying off federal civil service employees. This is an enormously burdensome expenditure of capital that absolutely no private competitor comes even close to matching.ĢC). The US Postal Service is required by law to fully fund all of its employee pensions for 75 years into the future. A private competitor can adjust their prices as they see fit.ĢB). This is simply inadequate to the market demands.

The US Postal Service is forbidden by law to raise the price of postage by anything more than the rate of inflation. It is simultaneously expected to be a self-supporting agency as a private business would be, yet it is bound and obligated by US laws in ways that no private business would be.ĢA). The US Postal Service is constrained in ways that no other government agency or private business is. One legal competitor, and *poof* monopoly does not apply.Ģ). A monopoly means no competing enterprises are allowed at all. Private mail carriers and couriers (such as modern-day UPS and FedEx) have existed since before the founding of the Republic. The postal service is by no means a monopoly. Your assessment of the US Postal Service is somewhat inaccurate.ġ).