With deliveries up in volume due to the pandemic, it is a failure of leadership that the USPS didn't get more funding and support.
This is the time you want more deliveries over in person interactions, of course people will ship more, but they are expected to roll with the support of a time without such a spike in demand. Essentially these are holiday level volume numbers with regular time funding.
As a taxpayer, I want money I pay going to the USPS, it is extremely valuable infrastructure for the last mile, small business and big business as seen here with Amazon.
Without the USPS, and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) [1], shipping would be much more expensive. It really is a sort of loss leader service that fuels so many other economic network effects. The UPU and USPS are some of the best ever public services created and one area where the world gets along, anyone attacking it should be immediately ejected from power.
Any infrastructure bill should include shoring up the USPS and expanding it, possibly including banking again and financial services that can be attained by the unbankable. USPS is required infrastructure, the lack of care about it is short-sighted and inexcusable.
This is the time you want more deliveries over in person interactions, of course people will ship more, but they are expected to roll with the support of a time without such a spike in demand. Essentially these are holiday level volume numbers with regular time funding.
As a taxpayer, I want money I pay going to the USPS, it is extremely valuable infrastructure for the last mile, small business and big business as seen here with Amazon.
Without the USPS, and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) [1], shipping would be much more expensive. It really is a sort of loss leader service that fuels so many other economic network effects. The UPU and USPS are some of the best ever public services created and one area where the world gets along, anyone attacking it should be immediately ejected from power.
Any infrastructure bill should include shoring up the USPS and expanding it, possibly including banking again and financial services that can be attained by the unbankable. USPS is required infrastructure, the lack of care about it is short-sighted and inexcusable.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union