Since Trump is discussing this idea....I'll just share the German 'solution'.
All of the German individual post office operations were set to close down (around 30 years ago). In return...various businesses were offered a deal to buy an operation.
So you had lotto shops, smoke-shops, grocery operations, and any business of a village/town....to be the post office. You would walk in and mail a package, or pick boxes.
What was left? Delivery. So in each district (county).....one receiving station was established, and dozens (if not hundreds) of delivery folks came in and picked up what had been sorted.....then drove off to various parts of the district to deliver to your home.
Saturday delivery still part of the system? Yes.
Your own personal delivery guy? No. Like in my village....there are two folks, and they swap routes each week.
Most deliveries by the postal system....in terms of boxes? No....I'd say Amazon and Fedex handle more than 50-percent.
The village postal point for me? It's open from 9AM to 1 PM, and from 3PM to 6 PM. It's open for 3 hours on Saturday.
It works....and it's likely that the US system could go the same route in some way.
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