Here is maybe a silly question: I order food every day. I make a phone call or use a website, and an hour later, a pizza or sandwich shows up to my door.<p>What is prohibitive about doing this for groceries, toiletries, or other other arbitrary merchandise?<p>It seems like if I order "banana pudding" from my local pizza place, I get it in an hour. If I order "a banana and cup of pudding" from FreshDirect, I have to wait for them to deliver it the next day within a 4-hour window.<p>Is there something fundamentally different about shipping goods as compared to shipping ready-made food? Why don't we already see more of this?
USPS is a national treasure. A fantastically efficient organization and an example of a publicly owned and operated entity running well. USPS needs to be increasing services, not cutting services. Saturday delivery should not be cut. Sunday delivery should be added.<p>USPS is indispensable infrastructure, and crucial to e-commerce.<p>Amazon is owning retail, and USPS should be fighting to make every Prime delivery in the nation, even on Sunday.<p>Local post offices have great reach and location. Right now they are prohibited by law from engaging in other services. That law is obsolete.