The Future of USPS (updated)
Originally published on June 23, 2020, updated July 31, 2020.
In today’s episode of The Policy Paycheck, host Serena Allen discusses the economic problems of the United States Postal Service with expert Chris Edwards.
How does the USPS make money? Why is it a government agency? How do other countries approach their mail services?
>> Please note this episode has a modified introduction to reflect the argument for the USPS, which was not originally included in the original recording.
Links
- To Save the USPS, We Must Privatize It by Chris Edwards
- U.S. Postal Service in Crisis by Chris Edwards
- Postal Facts (from USPS)
- In the Grand Canyon, the U.S. Postal Service still delivers mail by mule by Hannah S. Ostroff
- The Case For The Post Office by David Morris
- Compare Shipping Rates On a Single Page
- UPS Fact Sheet
- Hundreds of Millions of Holiday Packages Expected Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day
- Total average packages delivered daily by FedEx Express between FY 2016 and FY 2020
- How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis — And How to Fix it by Sarah Anderson, Scott Klinger, Brian Wakamo
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Produced by Serena Allen & Aubrey Hicks. Sound editing by the Brothers Hedden.
