[CleanedStar]

"But the truth is, the USPS needs to innovate."

Tell your congressional representative, not USPS. FedEx and UPS have spent large amounts of lobbying money ensuring that USPS does not innovate. Congressional legislation is what prevents USPS from innovating.

[bajsejohannes]

> FedEx and UPS have spent large amounts of lobbying money ensuring that USPS does not innovate.

It's hardly surprising, but do you have any sources for this claim?

[jwcooper]

From the recent Esquire article[1]:

Over the past five years, FedEx and UPS have spent a combined $100 million lobbying Congress. Because neither company has a delivery network nearly as sprawling as Donahoe's, they contract with the postal service to deliver the "final mile" of much of their cargo. For instance, more than 21 percent of all FedEx deliveries are dropped off by a postal carrier. Meanwhile, millions of postal-service letters hitch rides on FedEx flights every day, for which the company gets paid $1 billion a year. FedEx and UPS don't want the postal service to go out of business but to remain contained, out of the way — one reason many of the addresses on packages that pass through Medford are handwritten by mothers and grandfathers and eBay minimoguls, rather than printed by manufacturers and retailers.

[1] http://www.esquire.com/print-this/post-office-business-troub...