Quoted from BigB:UPS wanted $17.25 and another day to do it. Maybe the postal service is just that hard up for business?
USPS has lost over $38.4 billion over the last 5 years.
That's billion with a 'B'.
Keep in mind they function as a quasi- federal agency, exempt from paying federal taxes while enjoying a legal monopoly on the delivery of domestic mail. The monopoly is estimated to be worth $45 billion annually.
It takes a special kind of talent to lose nearly $250 every second of every day over a 5 year period.