02-08-2013, 05:33 AM
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Originally posted by hotinhawaii
Sure FedEx will deliver a letter to your door in Wherever, HI ...for only $39.95. Do you really want the free market to decide on a price for delivering all of your mail? The USPS is one of the great equalizers just like the national highway system and the electric grid. Without it being nationalized, costs for rural areas would be extremely high.
Yes, I do want the free market deciding. Seems like a lotta things cost more in rural areas, especially as rural as Puna, Im inclined to believe this makes sense. Do you generally like to steal from others to subsidize your lifestyle choices? We have never had a real opportunity to see what the free market would do with first class mail service. Given the rise of the internet, it probably wont matter, the post office is dead weight.
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