ALEC/Koch Cable Pursuing Privatization of the US Postal Service for UPS and Fedex...

OpEd by by Bob Sloan © 2012

An event occurred in front of my home on Wednesday of this week that provided an incentive for me to go ahead and publish an article I’d written about the United States Postal Service (USPS).  The event was a strong-arm robbery of a mailman at a house on our block.  I witnessed this event and was asked to give statements to agents of the Postal Inspector’s Office and local detectives.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been in the news a lot of late.  Many stories about the loss of income and repeat annual income falling far below the Postal Service’s ability to operate have been trumpeted in the MSM.  Critics have called for the USPS to reduce hours, cut employees, close facilities and raise rates to increase annual sales and income. Today some within the business community think the USPS is actually looking at bankruptcy.  There is no doubt the U.S. Mail service is struggling financially but is the fault really that of USPS?

I think it is time to take a long hard look at just how this has come about.  Mail service has been around longer than the U.S. has as a nation: