Greener Mail Initiative?

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

Sorry GoldenRivet, but that idea is just...
wrong!

I never said it was the end all be all solution to the problem.

i do feel that the USPS serves a critical function.

the problem here is that the internet has come along, and technology has come along and these forces have changed everything about the way our society functions.

unfortunately a lot of businesses... especially those federal businesses... are playing catch up, or they are wandering around lost in a world which is altogether unfamiliar to the way they have existed since the dawn of this nation.

EDIT:

i wonder how much of a part the companies like UPS and FedEx are playing into the downfall of the USPS.

The federal government awarded these rights and privilages to UPS and FEDEX, they mostly deliver boxed goods.

Seems that the USPS would be doing substantially better business wise if FEDEX and UPS were no more... but now we have an issue of Government intrusion on private enterprise.