- Break up the Postal AT&T
- We have no idea what we’re missing by barring competition to the United States Postal Service. We’re in the position we were in 1980 when proponents of government monopolies were warning us of the horrors of ending the AT&T telephone monopoly.
- The Post Office is not designed for universal mail-in ballots
- Universal mail-in ballots introduce serious problems that the United States Postal Service is not designed to handle. To be sure that all votes are counted, we should continue accepting ballots for 100 years.
- The Radio Shack Postal Service
- What if Radio Shack had been granted a monopoly on computers in 1981? They’d probably look a lot like the United States Postal Service.
More Information
- Super-efficient USPS delivers a letter in Michigan 100 years after it was mailed
- “In a timely display of their renowned efficiency and speed, the USPS finally delivered a 100-year-old letter to Brittany Keech of Belding, Michigan.”
- USPS Finally Starts Notifying You by Mail If Someone is Scanning Your Snail Mail Online
- “A review of the methods used by the USPS to validate new account signups last fall suggested the service was wide open to abuse by a range of parties, mainly because of weak authentication and because it is not easy to opt out of the service.”
- Florida woman told to forfeit Second Chance Lottery prize after USPS loses certified mail with ticket inside
- “That’s because the U.S. Postal Service did not deliver the ticket to lottery headquarters in Tallahassee, even though Burgess sent the package through certified mail.”