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<blockquote data-quote="Flipx99" data-source="post: 7932208" data-attributes="member: 562352">You are proving our point for us. How does it make financial sense to deliver mail 6 days a week when people are using e-mail, texting, etc to communicate across the US and internationally. A private business would have saw that problem and quit delivering mail 6 days a week. The government gives no crap that 6 day a week delivery is inefficient and requires the USPS to do it anyway. While it&#039;s not the USPS&#039;s fault, it is the federal government&#039;s fault. That is what I mean when I say government inefficiency.If the government and a company were doing the exact same process, delivering mail, making widgets, etc then the government could probably do it cheaper. The difference is the company is constantly trying to find a cheaper way to do it, a better way to do it, a way to make more money whereas the government will continue to complete the process in the same way as they did in the 1960s unless COngress tells them to do it differently. This pressure to innovate or die is what makes the business environment different than the government environment. The only agency that really tries to innovate is the military and that is because they are in competition with other countries to be the baddest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flipx99, post: 7932208, member: 562352"] You are proving our point for us. How does it make financial sense to deliver mail 6 days a week when people are using e-mail, texting, etc to communicate across the US and internationally. A private business would have saw that problem and quit delivering mail 6 days a week. The government gives no crap that 6 day a week delivery is inefficient and requires the USPS to do it anyway. While it's not the USPS's fault, it is the federal government's fault. That is what I mean when I say government inefficiency. If the government and a company were doing the exact same process, delivering mail, making widgets, etc then the government could probably do it cheaper. The difference is the company is constantly trying to find a cheaper way to do it, a better way to do it, a way to make more money whereas the government will continue to complete the process in the same way as they did in the 1960s unless COngress tells them to do it differently. This pressure to innovate or die is what makes the business environment different than the government environment. The only agency that really tries to innovate is the military and that is because they are in competition with other countries to be the baddest. [/QUOTE]

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