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

[Todderbob]

@UDS

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

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.)

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@CookingWithGas

Turkey is a candidate country.

Ah. So it is.

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