The U.S. Postal Service has less flexibility to address financial shortfalls than mail systems in other countries because of its obligation to provide universal service, the size of population served and regulatory limits on competing with the private sector outside its core postal business, according to the agency’s independent watchdog.
The Postal Service’s business model is largely restricted to postal products, making it one of the least diversified posts in the world, the Office of...
At first blush, Section 202 of postal reform legislation currently moving through the U.S. House and Senate is innocuous to the point of irrelevance. The language requires the U.S. Postal Service to maintain an “integrated delivery network of mail and parcels” and to deliver them in tandem six days a week except for weeks with federal holidays or in emergency situations. The provision codifies what the Postal Service has done for generations and what no one has any intention of forcing it to...
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