Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
by tasty_freeze on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:29PM
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That is defining monopoly in a very constrained way. You might as well be complaining that USPS having a monopoly over delivering watch fobs. FedEx isn't trying to capture the $0.55 letter delivery market.
Re:No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
by BurningFrog on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:29PM
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It's the textbook definition of a government instituted monopoly. Monopolies don't get more monopol...ied than that!
> FedEx isn't trying to capture the $0.55 letter delivery market.
Because that would be illegal. Otherwise they would.
But it is. A simple googling gives many hits confirming this simple fact. This one seemed most informative:
> The USPS actually has two legally enforced monopolies, as per Title 39 of the US Code. One is over the delivery of anything defined as a “letter,” which is within certain size and weight limits. The second is over the use of your mailbox.
From https://www.econlib.org/rick-geddes-explains-the-postal-mono...