Comment / USPS – insourcing is killing the contractors that built its network

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Key takeaway: The Postal Service’s push to bring operations in-house has cost more than 3,000 jobs across its contractor base in six months, and the companies that spent decades hauling America’s mail are learning what concentration risk really means.

There is a particular cruelty in being fired by a customer you helped build.

Alan Ritchey moved to Valley View, Texas, in 1964 to construct and operate a cotton gin. Very soon after, as the Gainesville Register put it, he ...