Courier to Thailand from Australia
It seems to me that a significant part of the problem here lies with Congress and that a massive bout of deregulation could be just the solution that the Post Office is looking for. Congress is micromanaging the Post Office, telling it how much it can raise postage rates, telling it that it can’t offer financial services (despite its huge business in money orders), telling it that it can’t get into all manner of other businesses either and telling it that it has to deliver mail on Saturdays. Astonishingly, amid all these rules and regulations, the Post Office is losing billions of dollars.
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I see a lot of scope for bipartisan agreement here — unshackle the Post Office
so that it has a hope of serving the country indefinitely into the future.
Republicans like deregulation, right?
His idea of deregulation goes further than any bill before
Congress. His focus is on commercial freedoms that includes a
significantly reduced role for the Postal Regulatory Commission.
He also offers the suggestion that the
Postal Service expand into financial services like Australia Post, La Poste
(France) and Poste Italiane. Even without expansion into financial
services, expansion of the Postal Service's business interests could include
the sale of non-postal products through both its corporate-staffed and
franchised outlets as Australia Post does, or the provision of secure e-mail
boxes as both Canada Post and Deutsche Post do.
Deregulating the Postal Service is a different
direction than any bill in Congress is now taking. Part of the
reason is the political challenge that Mr. Salmon clearly
understands.
The problem, I think, is that for all that Republicans like
deregulation, they really hate the idea of a state-owned organization competing
with the private sector. Of course, the Post Office does that already — it
competes with FedEx and UPS. But the USPS, as a government-subsidized
organization with thousands of locations nationwide and a massive reserve of
public trust, could be a formidable competitor in all manner of different
markets and none of the incumbents in those markets would welcome the
competition.
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