How can USPS make money when operating like this?

[Angry White Male]

Vancouver is a three hour drive North from Seattle.  My sight pusher was made in, and shipped from, Seattle days ago.



Right now it is in San Francisco...



My watch arrived from Singapore in four days via DHL.  It has taken USPS longer than that to move the product the wrong way, from Seattle to San Francisco...

[Anonymous]

Vancouver is a three hour drive North from Seattle.  My sight pusher was made in, and shipped from, Seattle days ago.



Right now it is in San Francisco...



My watch arrived from Singapore in four days via DHL.  It has taken USPS longer than that to move the product the wrong way, from Seattle to San Francisco...

Maybe they use the hub and spoke system too.

[kiebers]

The USPS does not make money, hasn't for quite some time. One of our budget issues....

[Anonymous]

The USPS does not make money, hasn't for quite some time. One of our budget issues....

It was never intended to make money, only to perform a service at a fair price.  It has mostly done so until about fifteen years ago, when Republicans in Congress began dreaming up treasonous ways to hamstring and sabotage it -- with a view to eventually being able to kill it and cook up a privatized replacement in the name of crony capitalism.

[Anonymous]

The USPS does not make money, hasn't for quite some time. One of our budget issues....

It was never intended to make money, only to perform a service at a fair price.  It has mostly done so until about fifteen years ago, when Republicans in Congress began dreaming up treasonous ways to hamstring and sabotage it -- with a view to eventually being able to kill it and cook up a privatized replacement in the name of crony capitalism.

Wrong, snail mail is dying out everywhere. Canada Post is in the same boat.

[Anonymous]

The USPS does not make money, hasn't for quite some time. One of our budget issues....

It was never intended to make money, only to perform a service at a fair price.  It has mostly done so until about fifteen years ago, when Republicans in Congress began dreaming up treasonous ways to hamstring and sabotage it -- with a view to eventually being able to kill it and cook up a privatized replacement in the name of crony capitalism.

Wrong, snail mail is dying out everywhere. Canada Post is in the same boat.

Don't be so quick to label my post as "wrong."  You may be correct about Canada Post and about "everywhere" but even if so that would not refute my comment about the USPS.

[Anonymous]

The USPS does not make money, hasn't for quite some time. One of our budget issues....

It was never intended to make money, only to perform a service at a fair price.  It has mostly done so until about fifteen years ago, when Republicans in Congress began dreaming up treasonous ways to hamstring and sabotage it -- with a view to eventually being able to kill it and cook up a privatized replacement in the name of crony capitalism.

Wrong, snail mail is dying out everywhere. Canada Post is in the same boat.

True enough IHJ..



They don't even call them mail carriers anymore, they are delivery agents..



Canada Post, Royal Mail and USPS were established for a different  era.

[cc]

Apart from regular mail, they are trying to compete with couriers



I understand that they are not making money on mail, so are adding alternative revenue sources.



I don't like the ethics of this. Clearly they have some distinct advantages over private business .. and have NO business competing with the private sector

[Anonymous]

Apart from regular mail, they are trying to compete with couriers



I understand that they are not making money on mail, so are adding alternative revenue sources.



I don't like the ethics of this. Clearly they have some distinct advantages over private business .. and have NO business competing with the private sector

Thank you Seoul, I mean cc.

 

[cc]

Aw, the terminology had you fooled there





 

[Anonymous]

Aw, the terminology had you fooled there





 

It did cc.

[Anonymous]

Apart from regular mail, they are trying to compete with couriers



I understand that they are not making money on mail, so are adding alternative revenue sources.



I don't like the ethics of this. Clearly they have some distinct advantages over private business .. and have NO business competing with the private sector

Thank you Seoul, I mean cc.

 

Are you suggesting I have an unshakable faith in free markets and fair competition? Good guess.

[Anonymous]

Apart from regular mail, they are trying to compete with couriers



I understand that they are not making money on mail, so are adding alternative revenue sources.



I don't like the ethics of this. Clearly they have some distinct advantages over private business .. and have NO business competing with the private sector

There is nothing ethical about crown corporations like Canada Post or the CBC competing with private enterprise.

[Anonymous]

Apart from regular mail, they are trying to compete with couriers



I understand that they are not making money on mail, so are adding alternative revenue sources.



I don't like the ethics of this. Clearly they have some distinct advantages over private business .. and have NO business competing with the private sector

There is nothing ethical about crown corporations like Canada Post or the CBC competing with private enterprise.

Maybe, but you don't believe they will be privatized do you Seoul?

[Anonymous]

Apart from regular mail, they are trying to compete with couriers



I understand that they are not making money on mail, so are adding alternative revenue sources.



I don't like the ethics of this. Clearly they have some distinct advantages over private business .. and have NO business competing with the private sector

There is nothing ethical about crown corporations like Canada Post or the CBC competing with private enterprise.

Maybe, but you don't believe they will be privatized do you Seoul?

Not a chance. The pendulum has swung against free and fair markets. The opportunity to unload both of them is lost.