BaronVonBigmeat
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- Sep 20, 2005
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the competition is not capable of handling small mail. Thier fleets are geared towards parcel ONLY. A good friend of mine owns a couple fed ex routes and I've had this conversation before. In fact, the government doesn't force anyone to use the USPS at all. You COULD send all your mail using competition if you wanted to pay them to deliver it as a package.
The USPS has a legal monopoly on delivering basic mail. That means if FedEx tries to, they will find themselves in court. Of course their fleet is geared towards handling packages and not small mail--they aren't going to spend money on equipment which they aren't allowed to use!
Also, do you think that UPS, FedEx, and DHL couldn't go and buy mail Jeeps for delivering letters? Seriously? Like, the President of the company says "Welp, we thought the multi-billion letter delivery market looked attractive, but...we'd have to...buy some Jeeps. Ah well, that's too complicated, so much for that idea!"
DID CAPITOLISM GET US OUT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION? WHAT HAND DID CAPITOLISM PLAY IN CREATING THE DEPRESSION IN THE FIRST PLACE?
The Great Depression was a result of colossal bungling by the Federal Reserve (they have also created the housing boom here recently, and the inevitable recession/depression that is looming right over the horizon). It was also caused by the draconian Smoot-Hawley tariffs. It's also interesting to note how long it lasted--over a decade. There was a depression right after WWI, which was just as severe, only it was over in less than a year. That's because the government didn't try to take over half the economy.