Senator Carper introduces legislation to virtually end the USPS

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17. But most of those countries

Have changes already we are just starting to make. For one they are much more dense populations. They have long had cluster boxes and in some of those countries Saturday delivery cost extra.

Also raising price will also reduce volume especially the junk mail as more and more directed advertising goes digital and more specificly mobile with geo-location.

But yes something has to change or the service will continue to lose money and eventually may not be able pay for its liabilities.

The extra payments it has to make on pensions is sucking money out of it but if it fails those extra payments still won't cover the liabilities.

Personally I'm cool with making Saturday delivery only for premium services and encouraging cluster mailboxes (but I understand the issues with elderly ).

Also while I hate it when ups/FedEx offloads a package to them for final delivery I see this as a way USPS can remain profitable. They already have the feet on the ground touching all of these addresses almost daily so it makes sense. And now that the USPS has updated its processes and technology I hope they form more partnerships like this. USPS has lots of potentional but the future for it may be quite different from letter delivery of the past.