Prices continue to rise while service and efficiency deteriorate.
If it were truly a private business, as it pretends to be, it would have gone Chapter XI years ago. The only thing propping it up is its special breaks from the government and its monopoly status. Since 1980, despite falling postal demand, the Post Office has increased its size by 36 percent, making its total workforce over 900,000. Meanwhile, despite large outlays on technology, USPS s productivity is expected to be an anemic 0.7 percent. Once on the Information Superhighway, they will probably use their regulatory authority to prevent anyone from getting in the passing lane.