Postal Service Board of Governors Need to Embrace Innovative Reforms

Postal Service Board of Governors Need to Embrace Innovative Reforms
A United States Postal Service worker leaves a postal facility in Chicago, Illinois, on Aug. 15, 2019. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Edward Hudgins
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors has reached a quorum for the first time since 2014. Finally, USPS can take much-needed action to stem the multibillion-dollar annual losses that threaten the very future of USPS mail delivery.

However, the board shouldn’t seek more revenue by forcing USPS to raise rates on its package delivery customers. If done, this could cripple the growing e-commerce sector and probably wouldn’t actually bring in more revenue. In other words, USPS should consider more innovative methods so it can meet the many challenges that lie ahead.

Edward Hudgins
Edward Hudgins
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Edward Hudgins, Ph.D., is founder of the Human Achievement Alliance and editor of "The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information Age" and "Mail @ the Millennium: Will the Postal Service Go Private?"
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