I've Been Rough On The Postal Service

26 October 2009

I've Been Rough On The Postal Service

posted by The Pajama Pundit at 16:01 filed in: USPS

... in the past. However, Nate Silver raises a good counter-counter-USPS argument. Money:

If the private carriers could afford to deliver everywhere for one flat rate and still turn a profit, they'd be doing so. But they can't. And that means that, in terms of redistributive nature of the USPS, at least insofar as redistribution occurs from one segment of the American population to another, some portion of that redistribution goes from urban and suburban areas to rural areas.

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26 October 2009