Why we love the U.S. Postal Service
Thursday, January 5th, 2012If you follow the news at all, you’re probably aware that the U.S. Postal Service has been facing serious fiscal challenges and that some in Congress have even advocated privatizing it. Complicating the story is the allegation that the fiscal crisis is not the fault of the USPS at all but rather the product of punitive policies imposed on the agency by Congress.
We don’t intend to get into policies or politics here, but we’d like to make two important points:
- It is currently much cheaper to mail books via the USPS than to send them via any other service.
- It is also much less trouble for a small business like ours, with less-than-daily shipments, to prepare books for mailing than it would be to use UPS or FedEx. (more…)