UPS Loses Billions of Dollars!

With the shipping giant losing 3.5 billion dollars in the third quarter, it's undeniable that UPS is not keeping up with its competition; consumers clearly prefer the alternatives.

They certainly can't keep up operations under such a devastating deficit, so they've determined that, in order to remain in business, they will have to be funded by direct, involuntary contributions, and also scale back service. Perhaps if customers get less of what they want, they'll value the service more and UPS can remain solvent.

What?

Wait. That's USPS, not UPS. OK, that makes sense.

UPDATE:

I may have gotten a bit carried away with my "sardonic voice" in this post. It was no real error - I was using the comparison to illustrate a point: that government "services" make use of force (especially the power to be funded through taxation and the power to outlaw competition against themselves) in order to enable them to conduct "business" in ways that would have any private enterprise closing its doors for good.
The Post Office is one example of a government "business" that consumers would never tolerate if it were up to them... and so is everything else the State "provides."