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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by gibsonf1 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:51PM (#23912724)
What a silly idea, that a free market would be better and more efficient delivering mail than the government which loses billions a year? Fedex delivers anywhere you want - I'm sure they would love to deliver mail too with their network as would UPS etc. and you know how reliable they are as opposed to USPS.
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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by mertd on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:58PM (#23912786)
Free market won't deliver to unprofitable zip codes, won't treat unprofitable diseases and cannot effectively account for negative or positive externalities created by a given business.
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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by gibsonf1 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:15AM (#23917215)
Why do you think that? Where does fedex, for example, not deliver?
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