Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office

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25. Private industry uses USPS for express delivery because it's cheaper and FEDEX uses USPS planes

because it's cheaper. I know because I've used it and a clerk at FedEx told me about it. Many years ago, my son was on a school trip on the east coast (we live on the west coast) and needed his birth certificate to go on a trip and I needed to overnight it to him. I went to FedEx and they were going to charge me about $25 to make sure that it was there the next morning. (There are different rates for next day delivery depending on when it has to be there by. Early morning is more expensive than late afternoon for example. I'm including that just so we're comparing apples to apples.) The clerk at FedEx whispered to me that if I went down the street to the USPS that it would be cheaper. I explained to her that it had to be there by the next morning. She said it would be. I said, but you don't understand, it absolutely, positively had to be there the next morning. She said, trust me. Now I had already waited in line at FedEx and didn't want to now leave and go down the road a couple of miles and get into another line and in the end pay the same amount, or worse and have to come back. But I decided to trust her.

I went to the USPS and not only was the line short that morning, I ended up using the same form, and envelope that I had completed down at FedEx. When I went to pay for it, it was about $16. I explained to the USPS clerk that this absolutely, positively had to be their tomorrow morning. She said it would be. She even gave me the tracking info. I asked her how can they ship theirs cheaper than FedEx? She told me that FedEx often ships their stuff through USPS. So after I finished up, I went back to FedEx and whispering, thanked the clerk there again for the information and apologized for my skepticism. She said that's okay, but if everybody knew that, she wouldn't have a job. So I want everybody to know that so people will quite with the myth that the private sector is always better than the government. Now this happened about a decade ago so the actual amounts may have changed since then, but on the one occasion since, when I had to send something overnight, I went straight to the Post Office, and I tell everyone I can, my story when I get the opportunity.