10 Reasons to Abolish the US Postal Service
8. USPS Has No Ability to Improve
The Post Office has a government protected monopoly, and like most monopolies, there’s no direct incentive for them to ever improve. Private companies are dependent on their customers to survive, and have to constantly look for ways to cut costs and improve services to stay afloat. The USPS doesn’t have to do that, and the taxpayers are basically rewarding them for their failure.
What little purpose the Post Office still maintains, it fails to accomplish with any efficiency or ingenuity. It’s massive size makes it a difficult organization to reform or improve, but due to logistics and politics, the organization cannot be reformed in any meaningful way. Its long history has earned it a certain element of romanticism in the public consciousness, but like most romantic stories, it’s more fantasy than reality, and we must not let ourselves be blinded to harsh truths nor the inevitable conclusion that the United States Post Office should be abolished.
