>Are they in a competitive market for the class of packages they ship in the US?
Fedex and UPS, in unison: am I a joke to you?
The short answer is yes, they are.
Fedex and UPS, in unison: am I a joke to you?
The short answer is yes, they are.
The USPS can't increase their domestic prices but there is good indication that they are charging more to offset this. There are complaints in this thread even about the cost of shipping abroad, as international shipping is not regulated like domestic postage rates if I remember right. So the USPS uses outbound international shipments as a cost center to make up for the subsidy to China.
The article states there is a ~$500M subsidy to China through UPU rates.