{"id":5260,"date":"2023-12-17T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T15:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:42:09","slug":"your-packages-wont-save-the-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/your-packages-wont-save-the-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postal Service wasn&#8217;t built for boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"574\" data-attachment-id=\"5261\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/your-packages-wont-save-the-postal-service\/your-packages-wont-save-the-postal-service-the-atlantic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic.png\" data-orig-size=\"984,574\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic-300x175.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic.png 984w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Your-Packages-Wont-Save-the-Postal-Service-The-Atlantic-768x448.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might have read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/amazon-vans-outnumber-ups-fedex-750f3c04\">recent news report<\/a>\u00a0that Amazon now delivers more packages than established companies including UPS and FedEx\u2014the latest sign of the e-commerce company\u2019s dominance. But if you read closely, you also saw that the U.S. Postal Service still handles more parcels (about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/what\/financials\/10k-reports\/fy2023.pdf\">7 billion<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/facts.usps.com\/table-facts\/\">a year<\/a>) than any of these companies, and in fact delivers hundreds of millions of packages\u00a0<em>for\u00a0<\/em>them&#8230; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/12\/postal-service-usps-packages-survival\/676378\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have read the\u00a0recent news report\u00a0that Amazon now delivers more packages than established companies including UPS and FedEx\u2014the latest sign of the e-commerce company\u2019s dominance. 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