Unions: Where did the U.S.A. go wrong?

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Actually, the USPS is only partially nationalized. It has a monopoly on first class mail (letters) but competes on the rest. USPS employees are unionized and semi-government at the same time. As usual, this means that the USA has managed -- with the exception of Kukrikhan -- to combine the worst of both approaches.

Postal service is self sufficient from government money and does a very good job at what it does. My netflix DVDs are always delivered within a day of them shipping it out.
http://www.nalc.org/postal/perform/selfsufficient.html