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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by runako on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:20PM (#23913597)
Per the USPS, it looks like there is an opening in law:

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub542/pub542_ch5_001.ht...

USPS has to get paid the going rate for postage. But given that no private carriers are within a factor of 10 of USPS pricing, that seems like it's not the barrier here. (Also: much easier to make the argument that the $1.00 letter service from FedEx could be $0.45 if Congress would update the relevant law.)

This really looks like the private carriers have carved off the profitable part (rapid delivery) and leave USPS with the hard, unprofitable part (delivery to 100% of addresses, for $0.55).

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by treis on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:30PM (#23913646)
I'm not sure how you reached your interpretation. The USPS is not barred from urgent delivery and has a competing product. They're just not as good at it as the private companies are.

As for regular mail, they don't offer that because it's impossible to compete when you have to pay your competitor for every sale you make.

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