I imagine a private sector delivery service is a little more difficult to manage in Idaho than....literally any European country
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That policy makes a great deal of practical sense if your goal is to maintain a postal system that works well for its users rather than one that makes the people that own it a lot of money
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Maybe, but there is no particularly compelling reason that the postal service should be generally designed to subsidize the high cost of delivering mail to far-flung locations and in fact it is a big operational problem that threatens the continued existence of the USPS!
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Other than the fact that it just really costs much more to transport a letter from Key West to Nome than between ZIP codes in NYC!!! I'm not dictating the ethics or public interest, I'm saying it is not a price structure dictated by the actual cost of the underlying service
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The government making sure that its citizens can send and receive mail to anyone anywhere in the U.S. at a reasonable rate is the definition of practical. You want the delivery of mail to also be restricted by profit and dependent upon location and income?
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He does. He establishes this elsewhere. He thinks 'cost effectiveness' is a simple, logical thing that everyone ought to be able to agree on, & which does not have important societal components.
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Except that makes sense. You just don’t care about access.
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There's an Amazon warehouse within walking distance of my house. They don't offer any discount on s&h.
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Except private industry does not manage to do it by themselves. They all rely on the USPS for last mile service and the integration is so seamless that you don’t even realize it
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Private industry “manages to do it” by subcontracting back out to USPS for last mile delivery.
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Came here to say this; thank you.
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