On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Seth Cohn <sethc...@gnuhampshire.org> > wrote: > > USPS is a disaster too. When you really want a package delivered > > cheap and fast and accurate, you go FedEx or UPS. > > Fast and accurate, yes. Cheap? No. For that people bitch about > the rising price of stamps, First Class Mail is still an order of > magnitude cheaper than everybody else. You can argue that's because > the USPS has an economy of scale that the others don't, due to their > "special position", but that doesn't change the fact that they're > cheaper. > > The USPS delivers a letter from here to CA for under 50 cents. You couldn't hire someone to lick the stamp for that. FWIW, I think independent companies should be allowed to deliver to > US Mail boxes, and nation-wide government subsidies for the USPS > should be phased out. I think granting special privilege to the USPS > made sense in the past, but times have changed. I think independent > post is viable with today's technology and infrastructure. Let the > I think the law is setup that your mailbox (or the inside?) is federal property. Anything delivered to that mailbox is subject to federal laws and the US Govt can prosecute mail fraud, stealing your paycheck or someone blowing up your mailbox, etc. I'm ok with that. My newspaper has its own box supplied by my subscription. If someone wants to put something in there, there's no law against it. If someone steals the paper or blows it up, I only have local laws. Tech is changing some of the needs of mailbox. My paycheck are direct deposit. Social Security prefers it too. Some of my bills are emailed which doesn't have the federal protections a physical letter does. -- If it's fixed, don't break it
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