How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink

Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by bradstewart on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:34PM (#30447510)

While USPS technically has a monopoly on your mailbox, you can send someone a letter via UPS or FedEx--for significantly more money.

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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by kibwen on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:48PM (#30447669)

And if you send something to a remote area, UPS and FedEx will themselves delegate to USPS precisely because it's not profitable to develop the infrastructure to service remote populations.

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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by BehindBlueEyes on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:51PM (#30449669)

It's not profitable to develop the infrastructure, but considering the price of delivering something where I live, I'm sure Fedex/UPS make a nice margin by delegating the last 400km drive to an unprofitable postal service.

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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by thaumasiotes on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:34PM (#30448775)

> you can send someone a letter via UPS or FedEx--for significantly more money.

Right, the reason it costs significantly more money to use UPS or FedEx is that it's illegal for them to charge less. Paying more puts your letter into a different legal category that is not reserved to the USPS.

Nobody cares about the mailbox. The USPS holds a monopoly on the delivery of non-urgent mail, which is defined as mail that costs below a certain price point to send.

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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by bradstewart on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:20AM (#30455668)

TIL it's illegal for UPS and FedEx to charge less. That was certainly a part of this equation I was missing, thank you!

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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by 8note on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:51PM (#30449334)

you can also send an email nowadays, or a <whatever chat>

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