News / USPS privatisation would change the dynamics of rocky US final-mile landscape

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The US parcel market is facing the prospect of considerable upheaval in the coming year, as thoughts in the incoming administration of privatising the postal service (USPS) could be adding another twist to the changing dynamics in ecommerce flows.

According to reports that emerged over the past weekend, US president-elect Donald Trump is considering this scenario. Faced with the fact that the postal agency deepened its deficit in the past fiscal year, he reportedly commented that the federal government should not ...