They Deliver for Who?

Time to end the U.S. Postal monopoly on letter mail:

If USPS were a competitive company — as opposed to bloated federal bureaucracy — stamp prices would be falling, not rising. Despite new technology — like modern reader/sorters that process over 30,000 pieces of mail per hour — stamp prices have risen with inflation since 1970. Imagine if the price of a phone call or sending an e-mail rose with inflation for 30 years.

USPS is simply unable to capitalize on its multibillion-dollar technology investments, or on its massive economies of scale. A December study by leading experts of the Postal Rate Commission notes: "The doubling of overall volume coupled with scale economies should have resulted in the average price of the stamp dropping in real terms."

The U.S. Postal Service is nothing more than a federal welfare program at this point. I wonder what the ratio of managers to mail carriers is?

UPS and FedEx are more than capable of doing this job effectively. Let them.