[OT] Postal services (was: better Internet)

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 12:20:11 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

>
> The USPS delivers a letter from here to CA for under 50 cents.  You
> couldn't hire someone to lick the stamp for that.
>

  No, they don't.  They subsidize the entire process by balancing all
charges.

  There's another catch.  Be federal law, anyone competing with the USPS
must charge 3x what their charging, no exceptions.

-- 
-- Thomas
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