No Wonder the Post Office Is Losing Money!

With mail volumes dropping, and losses mounting, it's starting to look like the days are numbered for the U.S. Postal Service. It probably doesn't help matters, either, that USPS just announced a big contract to pay one of its rivals -- FedEx -- to haul its mail.

Apparently, FedEx does a better job of this than USPS can do for itself. But that's not the Post Office's real problem. Its real problem is that FedEx knows how much its superior service is worth, and has the pricing power to charge for it, while USPS... doesn't.

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