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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by john-shaffer on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:17PM (#23912441)
> So if you want to keep the price of a stamp the same nationwide you need to grant a monopoly.

The conclusion does not follow. If it is important that the price of delivery to remote Alaska be cheap, then why not just subsidize it directly?

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by zebnyc on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:09AM (#23916091)
Can you clarify how this would work?

If I reside in Florida/Hawaii and send mail to Alaska I am presuming that it would get re-routed through intermediate stops. Also people move and mail traffic ebbs and flows through the seasons. So I don't understand how this subsidies would work unless we look at the network as a whole and budget accordingly.

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