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Capitalism 101--the more competition, the lower the prices.
The person in Montana will have no mail service because no one will see any profit in delivering to them unless they pay an exorbitant rate. That's capitalism 101, professor. You might want to study your textbook a little more.
The person in Montana will have no mail service because no one will see any profit in delivering to them unless they pay an exorbitant rate. That's capitalism 101, professor. You might want to study your textbook a little more.
And explain to the rest of the class why you think that rate of mail delivery would be exorbitant if there were 100 different mail carriers.
The person in Montana will have no mail service because no one will see any profit in delivering to them unless they pay an exorbitant rate. That's capitalism 101, professor. You might want to study your textbook a little more.
If you're talking Bed Bath and Beyond coupons, yeah they might not want to pay the true cost of delivery. On the flip side, if its wanted or necessary the market will provide a solution.
I was talking about government institutions. Voluntary institutions are fine.
Maybe they would get mail, but if they did it would be because urban residents were charged special fees like on their phones, cable service, electricity, internet, airline tickets and the list goes on to provide services to rural residents that they can't economically sustain. More red state mooching from the blues.
I know the Statists in here are unfamiliar with Spooner's fight against the government's postal monopoly but maybe they should research it.
He started it in response to high postage rates by the feds. He got the government to lower rates and increase efficiency...for a time...because the people (known as consumers to us capitalists) were happy with his service.
Then the State got ticked off after having to actually compete, jailed a carrier or two, and "legally monopolized" (whatever the hell that means in StatistLand) the government's postal services. They shut Spooner down.
Again, government schools don't teach it but it's out there on the interwebs which were invented by Al Gore of course.
USPS is stuck having to deliver letters and packages to Trumplings out in Podunk. It's not a profitable venture. Anyway, it's a mandated service in our Constitution which does not require it to make money.
Well, actually,
Constitution, Article 1, Section 8
"The Congress shall have Power To establish Post Offices and post Roads."
So Congress has the power to establish Post Office and Congress has the power to insist that it be profitable.
But every time it tries, rural people raise a fuss.
For example, in the not so distant past, the USPS planned to close down a bunch of unprofitable rural post offices.
Folks had a fit about how it would make rural communities more isolated, how some rural residents get their meds through the mail (though why they can't just get their meds in the mailbox is somewhat of a mystery), ... on and on about the social costs of closing rural Post Offices.
If the USPS was run like a for-profit corporation, those rural post offices would be closed, mail, including bulk mail of political flyers to Middle-of-Nowhere, North Dakota and Bum****, Montana, would be charged what it cost to deliver them, ...
Yet another example of how, urban Americans subsidize those fiercely independent rural Americans.
People are not only defending failure and inefficiency on this thread they're actually arguing for it to continue lol
Sadists with a whopping case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Government schools would be proud of their pupils.
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