Last week we learned that the USPS was going to be dropping Saturday service and get rid of all next-day mail. My only real problem with this comes form the fact that UPS and FedEx suck balls when it comes to delivering stuff.
Sure FedEx and UPS deliver right to your door and make can do it just as efficiently as the postal service. Yet the USPS can drop it off in your mailbox so you don't have to sit around all day waiting for the delivery guy. Plus until this coming spring you were able to get packages, letters, and fun junk mail even on Saturday, a service that FedEx and UPS only offer at extra cost. So then you have to ask yourself but the postal service is leaking money from the taxpayers and we shouldn't have to put up with that in this economy.
WRONG! The USPS is an independent organization that does not receive any taxpayer money, unless you count the money you spend on stamps. They must make all of their money from the sell of PO Boxes, stamps, packages, and all that other stuff they ask you about when you mail something. I know that you are also thinking that it is just cheaper to use UPS or FEDEx as they will pick it up from you and they have such good rates on boxes.
WRONG AGAIN! The USPS has a thing called a Flat-Rate Box that allows you to put as much stuff inside as will fit for one low cost. Yet UPS and FedEx require that you pay per pound and they will rarely take a letter that is not in one of their special envelope boxes. So a letter sent to your grandma at Christmas time would only cost you 44 cents at the post office (even less if you bought your forever stamps a couple of years ago) and it would cost about $20 at UPS for the same thing. As well the USPS allows you to print your label, pay for it, and get it picked up at your house. But isn't it unsafe to let your letters just sit in your mailbox until you get home in the evening.
WRONG A THIRD TIME! See not even UPS and FedEx can put stuff in your mailbox. It is even illegal for someone else to open your mailbox unless they are a representative of the postal service. That's the magic of a mailbox. A mailbox is not something that the post office gives you when you move into your new house you can go to Lowe's and buy a new one for $20. There is no special ceremony for getting it into the ground. No mailman shows up to christen the mailbox when it gets placed. You put it up, you make sure your address, and sometimes name, is on it and voila you are ready to receive mail.
So in conclusion the Postal Service can pick up packages from your house, they don't "waste" taxpayers money, and it is cheaper. Maybe the USPS should be charging more for letters and packages so as to make the money they need to deliver mail 6 days a week (something that FedEx and UPS only do if you pay extra). We need the post office and I encourage you to use it to your advantage.
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