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The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse

Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode?

By Devin Leonard

Phillip Herr looks like many of the men who toil deep within the federal government. He wears blue suits. He keeps his graying hair and mustache neatly trimmed. He has an inoffensively earnest manner. He also has heavy bags under his [...]

Is the US Postal Service doomed? “We said, ‘What’s your 10-year plan?’ ” Herr recalls. “They didn’t have one.”

Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode?

By Devin Leonard

In the macro-economic model of national wealth building there are four key factors:

C = Capital = cash, property, real estate, physical assets (like derricks or tanks), financial assets, physical infrastructure fro highways to hospitals … but primarily the wealthy owning class

L = Salaries, the wage earning class

G = Government … Tax policy … Fiscal/revenue/spending policy, investment in physical or intellectual infrastructure (such as universities) or in war or other social services, etc.

T = Technology/Any Form of Knowledge from grade school learning to [...]

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The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse

Is the US Postal Service doomed? “We said, ‘What’s your 10-year plan?’ ” Herr recalls. “They didn’t have one.”

In the macro-economic model of national wealth building there are four key factors:

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