re: Post office beats UPS and FedEx for packages

In my experience, FedEx is the best.

USPS screws everything up, and their customer service and ability to correct their mistakes are pathetic.

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Post office beats UPS and FedEx for packages


UPS and FedEx get government subsidies in the form of the interstate high way system, US federal highways, state highways and county and city roads. They also enjoy government services in air-traffic control. So the idea that UPS and FedEx are totally private and get no help from the taxpayers is false. They can also enjoy taxpayer funded courts to help settle disputes they have and tax-payer supported snow plows on roads. So once again they are also parasites.

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Do you not understand that public money to build roads and bridges must come from the private sector first, (i,e, corporate, individual, gasoline and sales taxes)? The USPS lost $16 billion in 2013 and should have been shuttered long ago. Why are basic economics so cumbersome for the left?

Let the post office die.

Withdraw its life support.

It's life has no meaning now.

Should you ever initiate a business of your own Ralph, the USPS is the business model you would least want to emulate.

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Use it multiple times a month and 90% of my packages come from UPS in 1 day.

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Amazon still uses Fedex/UPS for same-day. But two-day Prime shipping is almost all either straight-up USPS or something like Surepost which is UPS/USPS with USPS doing the last mile. They cut some kind of deal with the USPS that gives them lower rates and Sunday delivery but unfortunately means customers have to deal with random delays covered up with phantom "attempted deliveries." Combine that with the precipitous drop in two-day eligible items and Prime is mainly a streaming service with ancillary shipping benefits, rather than the other way around.

EDIT: I guess Jeff Bezos is lurking on TD I'm far from the only person to make this observation. LINK LINK LINK

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UPS and FedEx get government subsidies in the form of the interstate high way system, US federal highways, state highways and county and city roads. They also enjoy government services in air-traffic control. So the idea that UPS and FedEx are totally private and get no help from the taxpayers is false.

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Either way, it's a beyond-stupid post.

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In my experience, FedEx is the best.

USPS screws everything up, and their customer service and ability to correct their mistakes are pathetic.

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My experience as well. Fed Ex is the best by far, and UPS and the USPS are about equal in reliability. I can get items as fast with the USPS and I can UPS here, but they both use Alaska Airlines for their cargo locally. Fed Ex has dedicated aircraft.

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Which one is actually profitable? Oh, my bad, that doesn't matter to Communists.

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Jesus Christ. The USPS had been profitable for decades (well, intentionally break-even), and would still be so if a certain group of people weren't hellbent on privatizing all the things.

You guys are propping up UPS and FedEx as heroes, and looking at the USPS as a taxpayer dollar money pit, but apparently have zero clue as to what's going on. Congress placed huge liabilities on the USPS that no other entity has to take on, and they also set the price of a stamp. How profitable would UPS and FedEx be if it literally took an act of Congress in order to increase revenue?

So once the dismantlement is complete, and the postal service is sold off, I can assure you that the congressionally mandated liabilities that are preventing the USPS from being self-sufficient will go away. Also, I'm pretty confident that UPS and FedEx (or whoever ends up with the old USPS) will end up getting some sort of government assistance in order to deliver to all of the unprofitable addresses that the USPS currently services.

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Interesting that solvency was not one of the factors considered. I wonder how the USPS would have performed if they had to break even much less not be a parasite on the taxpayers.

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This is what makes the idiot communists so comical.

They live in some sort of unicorn land where if I can do something in 2 days for $100 and they can provide in 1.5 days for $1,000,000, they call the latter superior to the former.

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I wonder how the USPS would have performed if they had to break even much less not be a parasite on the taxpayers.

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The USPS does break even, and has done so for a long time. The current "parasitic" nature was forced on the USPS by the 2006 Republican Congress.