# How does the US of A compare with regard to postal services and executive pay?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 22, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-us-of-a-compare-with-regard-to-postal-services-and-executive-pay/490334 "2009-03-22T12:59:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-us-of-a-compare-with-regard-to-postal-services-and-executive-pay/490334/21 "2009-03-24T01:37:52Z")

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> [@UDS](#):
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> There are also issues like universality of service obligations. In most (all?) EU countries, every house, or virtually every house, is entitled to to-the-front-door delivery. The high cost of providing this service in sparsely populated areas obviously pushes up the average cost of handling letters. It may be – again, I’m guessing - that the US has significant areas where postal deliver standards are poor – as in, people have to travel to collect their post, which obviously represents a saving to the post office.

In the USA **every** home, as far as I know, is due door to door delivery of postal service, pick up and delivery, unless doing so poses a danger to the postal delivery agent.

> [@UDS](#):
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> And there could be other quality-related factors. My – admittedly limited – experience suggests that the network of full-service post offices is sparser in the US than in at least those parts of the EU that I have lived in, and the same is true for letterboxes.

In the USA there’s a minimum of 1 Post Office in every town I’ve been in, populations as small as 250. (Plus probably 300 or 400 in outlying, ‘non-town’ areas.)

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-us-of-a-compare-with-regard-to-postal-services-and-executive-pay/490334/22 "2009-03-24T01:57:36Z")

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> [@CookingWithGas](#):
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> Turkey is a candidate country.

Ah. So it is.

_grumble grumble_ Stupid EU… Turkey was part of the EEC, I swear! _grumble grumble_

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