New Packaging for USPS Priority Mail

Although sending correspondence across the United States has existed since the late 1600s, the United States Postal Service (USPS) as we know it wasn’t established until 1971 and is now a network of 31,000 retail locations delivering mail to over 152 million residences. Financially troubled for the last decade, USPS is a “self-supporting government enterprise” that receives no tax dollars and has to rely on the “sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations”. Raising basic postage prices, international shipping, closing locations, and ongoing warnings of shutting down Saturday delivery service have not improved its woes much so perhaps this new move to reinvent its Priority Mail options in order to compete with FedEx and UPS may be its best hop