How to Make the US Postal Service Competitive
Excerpt from “Why Knot?” Buy the book at Amazon
Unlike its competitors (UPS and FedEx) the US Postal Service is required by law to serve the entire country, not just the most lucrative markets. It’s important that everybody, including rural customers, be served on equal terms (same price and same frequency of delivery). But the cost of providing that service makes the Post Office non-competitive.
Make universal service a requirement for its competitors as well. Require them either to serve everyone, with no surcharge for rural deliveries and with equal frequency of deliveries, or to pay subsidies to the US Postal Service, proportional to the extra costs that it will incur to provide that service.
That approach would make the Post Office more financially viable, levelling the competitive playing field while ensuring equal delivery service for all citizens, regardless of where they live.
