Usps

[misterno]

Quote from Steven.Davis:

USPS's dedicated delivery schedule is more cost effective for mailbox sized items. It is not a matter of taxpayer subsidy, it is a matter of law concerning the delivery of small correspondence, sized items rather than packages.

USPS is losing $8.5BN just alone this year and you are saying they are the cheapest among all shippers

How is that not subsidy?

If USPS was forced to act like a private company, your wife would pay twice more.

Thus, the end of Amazon and EBAY

In other words, US tax payers are paying for the well being of Amazon and EBAY.

 

[ProfLogic]

Quote from misterno:

USPS is losing $8.5BN just alone this year and you are saying they are the cheapest among all shippers

How is that not subsidy?

If USPS was forced to act like a private company, your wife would pay twice more.

Thus, the end of Amazon and EBAY

In other words, US tax payers are paying for the well being of Amazon and EBAY.

I buy a lot on eBay.
I would buy equally as much on eBay if the USPS didn't exist.
I shop on Amazon.
I would still buy on Amazon if the USPS didn't exist.
I buy 80% of my non spoilage item online.
Shipping cost is just a considersation I look at for the overall cost.

The US Government has no business . . . competing in business.
Why?
THEY HAVE PROVEN TIME AND TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF SIMPLE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.

 

[Covertibility]

I think I'd rather have the government run the banks with all the pre-1980 regulations in place than the casino that's in place today.

 

[peilthetraveler]

Quote from misterno:

USPS is losing $8.5BN just alone this year and you are saying they are the cheapest among all shippers

How is that not subsidy?

If USPS was forced to act like a private company, your wife would pay twice more.

Thus, the end of Amazon and EBAY

In other words, US tax payers are paying for the well being of Amazon and EBAY.

Its only an 8.5 billion dollar deficit. If they just raised prices by 13% that would cover it and they would still be cheaper than everyone else.

Some years USPS makes money, some years they dont. I know in 2002 and 2003 they had a net profit of 5.2 billion and 4.6 billion. You also have to account that revenue for USPS has been down the last few years which partly explains the loss. Plenty of corporations have years when they lose money, but they make it back the next years.

 

[turkeyneck]

Quote from nitro:

I had to ship an item. So I compared Fed Ex, UPS, and USPS. The USPS is 50% less than FedEx, and almost 50% less than UPS!!!!

You pay for what you get. USPS's online tracking system is an absolute joke and utterly unreliable.