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Why Is the Post Office Still a Thing?
Kevin Kosar is a senior fellow at the D.C. think tank R Street Institute, but before that he covered postal issues for the Congressional Research Service for over a decade. He said that while the postal service needs reform, the country isn’t ready to let go of it completely.
“I’m not sure [the USPS] can be completely privatized or dismantled,” he told me. “America is such an immense country that if you want to have paper mail delivery for a very low price…you’re not going to find a private company that’s going to do that—or at least, it’s highly unlikely.”
