USPS Can’t Blame Gloom Of Night For New Cutback

As USPS plans to further “slow” 1st-Class package delivery, is it time it deep sixed its losing package delivery business & went back to doing what it does best in snow, rain, heat or gloom of night, i.e., handling ordinary mail?

According to the WSJ, “nearly one-third of [USPS] packages [starting May 1] will take an extra day or two for delivery [as the] agency seeks to [save money and] rely less on air transportation.” BTW: The service expects to lose $160 billion in the next decade so, don’t count on a reduction in the big fees it’s still going to charge. Funny, Fed Ex and United Parcel ain’t following Uncle Sam’s struggling delivery service and critics warn USPS is not going to be able to save much money, if any, or get more “reliable.”

Frankly, ALL the package delivery services seem to have lost their minds by raising fees beyond reason. This week I had to shell out $60.23 just to send two pieces of paper via UPS so it would arrive within three days in California, the land of the got rocks; if I wanted the doc overnighted, the cost jumped to $80. Maybe Joe Biden can use the military to more efficiently deliver USPS packages like he’s pushing for the military to better serve poor communities. Yet, are brilliant ideas like this precisely why USPS is going bankrupt?

Davd Soul