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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, service has degraded.  What used to be 3 days to get to 6 hours drive away (2 states) has become 4-5.  California is easily a week.

I ordered a book from Amazon itself (with last mile delivery by USPS) a few years back (I think during one of the troubled periods) and it was lost for a while but did show up.

Worse yet, I had a replacement credit card stolen directly out of the U.S. mail system a year ago (I have a locked mailbox).  And a friend's kid in another town had a package of gift checks he was depositing by mail stolen from the U.S. mail system.  His mother had to deal with the official fraud investigators.

The Post Office was a gem.  Technological change destroys industries.  I'm glad it still exists at all for now.[/quote]

It’s not technology change that destroyed it.[/quote]

PP.  There are a lot of factors but the loss of first class mail due to the rise of computing is a big one.  When there is less paid mail going to every address, but you need to service all addresses 6 days a week, that's quite a burden.  Also when you can't price discriminate to fully cover costs of servicing less profitable addresses.  Like Alaska.

Also, as you may have experienced, it costs little people far more to mail packages USPS than to get them shipped by vendors.  About 15 years ago, I started purchasing all my Christmas presents online from Amazon and having them direct shipped by Amazon "for free".  The USPS rarely offers good deals on shipping to retail customers.  Yet Amazon uses them to get "free shipping" Prime orders to me and my gift recipients.

The rise of Amazon is also technological change.  It's internet marketplace technology.  Just like Google's search engine represents technological change.[/quote]

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