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Originally Posted by Malsua
So you're saying that running a business at a loss distorts the actual cost across the market for other players? Now we are getting somewhere. If people actually paid the actual costs for things, maybe the USPS wouldn't be in such a hole.
If rural delivery is such an issue, maybe people wouldn't live in a mud hut on the side of a hill in rural bumfoot and at least move closer to the hard road.
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"If rural delivery is such an issue, maybe people wouldn't live in a mud hut on the side of a hill in rural bumfoot and at least move closer to the hard road."
I don't think you really understand the definition of
"rural." All of the farmers in our area, and for that matter any I have ever known, live in (by definition) "rural areas." If the postal service wasn't mandated to deliver to these locations, including even a lot of small towns that are rural also, they could immediately reduce costs substantially. We can't have it both ways in that the USPS must be self-sufficient, while also being mandated to deliver to everyone. For those that don't want to accept that our postal system is actually a national service and should instead be treated more like a business, be careful of what you wish. It would certainly be interesting to watch the national ramifications and attitudes, if all of a sudden the "Heartland of America" no longer received reasonably priced postal services.