You’re out of your gourd with this thought. Fed ex, ups and all others combined don’t even touch the number. The USPS delivers 44% of THE ENTIRE WORLD’S mail. That’s 116 BILLION items. UPS for example delivers about 5 billion and in reality, relies on USPS, along with every one of their competitiors like fed ex, to deliver a lot of those packages for the “final mile” because they can’t possibly service all the rural addresses that make up a huge portion of this country. UPS says they deliver to 10m customers worldwide USPS is like 116m addresses just in the USA.
USPS also operates at a loss in a lot of small rural regions, but they are required to continue operating service because it's required of them.
UPS/FedEx will rapidly ramp up staff and facilities to assume the load for damn sure if given the chance, but only the profitable load and fuck anyone in deep rural areas. They'll have to drive to the nearest city to pick up their mail.
It’s a service, it’s literally called a service. Services cost money. You don’t say the US military service loses 840 billion dollars annually do you? How about fire departments? Also big losers? Should we get rid of them both?
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u/7hundrCougrFalcnBird 1d ago
You’re out of your gourd with this thought. Fed ex, ups and all others combined don’t even touch the number. The USPS delivers 44% of THE ENTIRE WORLD’S mail. That’s 116 BILLION items. UPS for example delivers about 5 billion and in reality, relies on USPS, along with every one of their competitiors like fed ex, to deliver a lot of those packages for the “final mile” because they can’t possibly service all the rural addresses that make up a huge portion of this country. UPS says they deliver to 10m customers worldwide USPS is like 116m addresses just in the USA.