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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
it is a legal monopoly reserved for the U.S. government, with all the drawbacks and limitations of a monopoly. Could a private service work better? We'll never know, because it's illegal to found one...
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That's the point that I was making, Ralph. The post office in many European countries (including the UK) has been "privatized" and is run as a profit-making business. Many would argue that doing so has resulted in a much more efficient business, because they are competing against many other rivals, especially in the area of parcel deliveries. Why has the US reserved the postal service as a government monopoly? I would suggest that it's because it's considered that it's beneficial to the country as a whole to have it so.