Should Amazon Buy The USPS? Quora Users Discuss

Should Amazon Buy the USPS? According to a discussion among Quora users, No. An anonymous poster asked this question on social networking site, and more than a dozen people have shared their opinions on the subject. Most commenters think that it is a bad idea. Here are some of their reasons why:

Marc Bodnick writes: “Wow – no way. Would be a massive distraction trying to integrate, fix, and privatize the Post Office. Amazon has so many growth opportunities and so many things going for it; it’s really unimaginable that they would think it a good use of management time to work on a project like this.”

Venkatesh Rao writes: “A public postal service is sort of like an Internet for Atoms.

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