The postal service is the problem, not Amazon

Within the USPS, the “business side” of the government-run enterprise is broken down into two separate businesses: a monopoly side and a market side, according to Kevin Kosar of the free-market-leaning R Street Institute, in comments for Vox. The monopoly side being the letter delivery service and the market side being the parcel delivery service that competes with private sector counterparts like FedEx, UPS, DHL, and other package delivery companies

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