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Mail delivery has been a terrible business ever since the Internet destroyed the direct mail industry. Royal Mail has to keep making uneconomic deliveries to remote locations. UPS & FedEx can cherry pick the more attractive parts of the growing parcel business, leaving Royal Mail to do the "last mile" of delivery. The US Postal Service is also losing a fortune each year, for the same reasons.