The Buggy Whip Maker

There is always a victor and a loser whenever a society takes a “giant leap” in technology. When the automobile was invented, it was the buggy whip maker, the buggy maker, and the horse breeder. Today it’s the Post Office. Hard work to avoid bankruptcy aside, I expect the Post office to “go down” in my lifetime. Politicians think they can avoid it, which only points up their own incompetence. They’ll throw billions, maybe even trillions of Monopoly dollars into the effort, but it is doomed to failure. We can only hope they are smart enough to allow private enterprise to develop the means to deliver things that cannot be delivered by e-mail. Parcel Post will go first because private enterprise already has an advantage over them. The only thing keeping private enterprise from outdoing them in delivery of private mail is the law protecting the Post Office from competition. Private enterprise must “step up” and come up with a substitute for the government-subsidized postal system before it goes “belly up.” Which is going to be soon. (Mail.com)