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The United States Postal Service (USPS)

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The United States Postal Service, or USPS for short, has been an integral part of the way that the citizens of the United States have communicated since the very founding of this country. However, with a shift to online resources, such as e-mail, as a means of communication, the agency has become virtually irrelevant in the day-to-day lives of individual citizens. People would much rather send an instantaneous message through the internet than wait three to five days for their handwritten letter to be sent to the recipient. Due to this lack of need, the USPS finds itself in a stringent financial situation with dwindling public support. However, with a dramatic restructuring, such as a shift to online services, the USPS can find a way to continue …show more content…

As compared to the services provided by the USPS, online means of communication are not only faster, but they are also cheaper. Furthermore, as a result of this communication, the volume of mail delivered in the United States decreased by about 20 billion pieces from 2008 to 2009 (Source B). Thus, it could be said that people are moving away from the use of the USPS and towards the use of the internet. To recuperate the customers that it has already lost to the internet, the USPS will need a serious revitalization, coming in the form of a potential switch to an online means of communication. As argued by Daniel Stone on Newsweek, perhaps they should “go into e-business,” (Stone). As a result of a switch to e-business, the USPS could provide a free online account for all people who live in the United States at their birth, directly competing with technology corporations who require their consumers to reach a certain age before being allowed access to the product. More simply, by providing a free …show more content…

With a shift to online communications, the USPS may be able to stop some of the losses in revenue that have already forced the agency to slash its size. Furthermore, the large workforce employed by the USPS makes this issue all the more pressing. With the loss of work for some 600,000 people, a major dent could be made in the size of the unemployment rate. As a result, dramatic restructuring is

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