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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
I would bet it is higher. 10 years ago I would need two books of stamps per month for bills, etc. Today, I use 1 stamp per month. Just as video killed the radio star, the internet killed the USPS.
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Video never killed the radio star. Radio exists - both AM, FM and satellite. What they have done is become more responsive to their consumers. The TV - or MTV (where is the music in that anyway nowadays?) has done so only in some ways. Thus, both exist.
Electronic mail and other shipping providers have squeezed the USPS. The problem for the USPS is that, like any other governmental (or in this case, semi-governmental) agency, they (from the big picture, management position) do not see what they do as customer driven. Sure, your local postmaster may, but the ones who run the USPS into the ground don't. So, it has not adapted as it needs to.
Liberals did not kill the USPS, nor did Republicans, nor did unions (though unions do not help...). Government has put it on life support. But then again, it was a government abortion in a sense.