The US Postal Service at a crossroads
The untenable situation at the U.S. Postal Service is coming to a possible breaking point.\nIt is carrying a significant amount of e-commerce traffic but other competitors want that business. It continues to lose money and has an enormous pension burden that no other entity in America has. It suddenly has an unexpected role in the Presidential election. And it has a controversial new leader.\nOn the Drilling Deep podcast this week, John Kingston speaks with his colleague Mark Solomon, a long-time expert on the U.S. Postal Service, on these various challenges and how the agency might confront them.\nKingston opens the podcast by talking about the continuing lag in the diesel market, good news for any consumers of the fuel.\nMore FreightWaves podcasts\nApple Podcasts\nSpotify\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices