Weekly Economic News Roundup and mail trucks
Transportation
The Message That a Mail Truck Delivers

Looking at the mail truck (and wagon and train), we see a metaphor for the system’s innovative history and its current problems.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and USPS
Economic History
What Switzerland is Best At

When the Universal Postal Union used four Rs to rank postal services in 172 countries, the United States was in ninth place.

postal service innovation
Economic History
The Biggest U.S. Postal Service Problem

With postal service innovation a basic problem, the U.S. Postal System is ranked lower than France, Japan, Poland, and nine other countries.

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