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For years, UPS and USPS have been sharing resources. USPS deliveries can
be sent from some UPS Stores, but when that happens, the store can jack
up the prices all it wants. In 2009, the New York Times compared the
cost of sending USPS deliveries via privately owned UPS Stores versus
sending them via government-operated post offices: an eight-pound
package sent via USPS Priority Mail from a UPS Store on Manhattan’s
Upper East Side to Old Greenwich, CT, for example, cost $21 as opposed to $8.80 from
a post office across the street. That package cost $19.90 via UPS
Ground. If the U.S. Postal Service is dismantled the way Rep. Darrell
Issa (the California Republican who heads the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee) and others want, that’s the type of
price-gouging Americans can look forward to.
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