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eastbay71 I disagree entirely. Don't make the USPS the whipping boy here. I believe the USPS moves more pieces of mail than FedEx and UPS combined and there are bound to be errors. I've had mail service for my entire life and have only ever had one piece of mail lost. Yes, you read that right ONE! The funny thing is that is was my water bill and only had to travel a few blocks from my home. Even then I'm not even sure it was the USPS that lost it.
I've had worse experiences with USPS and FedEx over the years and DHL was over the top horrible. Before they left the US market, if I wanted to purchase something online and the only option was to have DHL delivery I would go elsewhere to make the purchase. I'm pretty sure that if the competitors were to start regular 6 days a week mail service with the kind of volume the USPS encounters, we'd see plenty of problems with service and probably more than with the USPS.
+1, and USPS is actually a pretty sound business. The whole "unprofitable" USPS situation was politically created by those who want to kill it off. It was mandated that the USPS had to fund pensions 75 years in advance--more than any private business and any other government agency. They are paying pensions for people who are not employees yet. It's nuts. It adds up to billions of dollars a year in losses.