Is it time to let the US Postal System be privatized?

An envelope took 30 days to move from PA to Ohio, a package sat in Florida for 7 days, Priority mail didn't get scanned and was delivered to the wrong address! Can another company do worse? Maybe UPS or FedEx can do better! They cut services and close Post Offices, raise rates, yet still can't make a profit!Is it time to let the US Postal System be privatized?
way past it...unless they want to ring my bell and save me a walk all the way down the driveway...i'll pay more for less hassle
I can tell you horror stories about the treatment I've had of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise sent to me through UPS and FedEx. I've never had a problem with a package through the postal service. I've had letters delayed, both coming and going, but you have to realize that you are not the center of the universe and that there are things like bad weather in places far away from you that dictate how fast certain things move.



FedEx and UPS do NOT want the business of delivering your mail to your house. UPS doesn't even want all of the package business it gets - it farms out a goodly percentage of it to USPS for the actual delivery (because they go to every address every day anyway - raking in the biggest cut of what they charge in the process. They only want the parts of the business that make them money.



Any private mail delivery companies that would pop up, should the USPS 1st class monopoly go away, would serve the major markets that see major volume, but would leave the smaller communities and rural areas with no service, because there's no money to be made. Someone would have to provide service to those people.



Guess who that would be? The taxpayer. Right now, and since 1971, not a dime of taxpayer revenue has funded postal operations.Is it time to let the US Postal System be privatized?
It will stay open till it is only open in capitals of states. Then maybe it will close. Because the government does not close agencies, they only grow. And because of a lax in knowing nothing will close them, there service is pitiful, just like every government agency. Every other Private mail service are many times more efficient, because if they do a bad job they go out of business, so the strive to do good work.

No it will never close, but will be replaced as the most used mail service.
if they are going to close rural post offices, maybe it is time



the fact that it cost the same to send a letter ANYWHERE in the country was the best thing about our postal systemIs it time to let the US Postal System be privatized?
Yes. The time came long ago. But do you honestly expect our government to relinquish its power over something as vast as the Postal System?
No.