Re:USPS Estimates $230 Billion in Losses over Next 10 Years
by Daniel_Newby on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @10:58AM
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"Why should people in economically viable communities be forced to subsidize people who chose to live in remote areas?"
Game theory. The population centers voted that failure to respond to mail can subject you to severe legal penalties, including imprisonment, and there is at present no practical substitute to first class mail. Cutting off the mail would result in unfair punishment of remote peoples, which would result in secession of the remote territory, which would result in loss of EXTREMELY valuable roads, railways, pipelines, oil tank farms, air space, geographically-defended military bases, and radio spectrum.
To put it another way, the economy of scale of the Pax Americana can afford quite a bit of abuse from the postal unions.
Game theory. The population centers voted that failure to respond to mail can subject you to severe legal penalties, including imprisonment, and there is at present no practical substitute to first class mail. Cutting off the mail would result in unfair punishment of remote peoples, which would result in secession of the remote territory, which would result in loss of EXTREMELY valuable roads, railways, pipelines, oil tank farms, air space, geographically-defended military bases, and radio spectrum.
To put it another way, the economy of scale of the Pax Americana can afford quite a bit of abuse from the postal unions.