xalex - 9:43 pm on Aug 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

For all the complaints from everyone, USPS is one of the best in terms of cost and success of delivery without mail loss, damage and fraud. So they are going to be here for a while. Being open in Saturday is great feature that there competitors don't enjoy, and I don't know why they would stop that.

Their problems are they can't leverage the current economy to there benefits and are slowly losing the advantage of economies of scale. USPS should stop depending on big business, and reach out to small and mid size business.

As online business grow, the demand for USPS should only increase. The B2B & B2C model works in favor of USPS, not against them, only if they fine tune their distribution model.

In other countries post office may fail, but US is too big to be completely covered by a private company. Hence there will always be premium of USPS.