USPS should give up first-class monopoly
The Pantagraph editorial “No stamp of approval for proposed increases” (June 1) spells out the many “flaws” in the entire United States Postal Service system.
The monopoly on first-class mail granted the USPS many, many years ago was necessary to ensure this service was made available to everyone equally. Those days are long gone. The need for this gigantic money loser no longer exists, thanks to the superior job being done by UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, etc. They offer delivery to every address in the United Sates daily – as well as literally worldwide. Given the opportunity, they would certainly be able to use their expertise in taking on first-class and parcel post. And competition would keep the rates down, while keeping levels of service up.
Should this be allowed to happen, these private-sector companies would need to hire many additional people, Who more qualified that current USPS employees.
And a huge plus – the government would no longer need to fund a gigantic pension fund which, when added to the other government pension funds, had forced our generation to put our kids and grandkids in hock for deficits created by our increasingly incompetent government’s ability to manage just about anything, not just the USPS.
Free enterprise and changing with the times got us here. Let it continue to pull us up to even higher economic levels.
