The Pros And Cons Of The United States Postal Service

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In a world where instantaneous connections are made with the Internet and new innovations are seen with every passing day, the United States Postal Service (USPS) should be restructured to meet the needs of this changing world because, while it is losing money under its current structure, it remains vital to American society, and could be reorganized by making its system of operations more efficient and cost effective the USPS is losing money under its current structure and should be reorganized to better sustain itself. It lost billions of dollars in one financial quarter alone, money from this loss could be put forth more efficiently in other areas of government spending, such as education. A restructure of the Postal Service's system of …show more content…

Not to mention all those angry, now unemployed mailmen. In addition, eliminating the rigidity of the Postal Service's current system of schedules and costs could serve to breathe life into the USPS and help it make a profit. The Postal Service could take longer to deliver mail, only deliver mail on weekdays, and lay off thousands of employees as it is restructured. Taking longer to deliver mail, both in terms of distance and time, would cut costs from the Postal Service's budget and better allow it to meet the needs of Americans who have increasingly moved towards sending email instead of snail mail: for personal use. Laying off employees would allow the USPS to consolidate departments and eliminate unneeded employees, trimming further fat from its budget and allowing it to better serve Americans.With a newly efficient structure, the United States Postal Service could remain vital to American society as it becomes a more cost efficient system that supplies the same connections that occur between people while taking a modernized form to match the constant innovations that people make. And besides, I’d pay 44 cents for a physical, tangible letter over some email any

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