Unprofitable? That’s not the real issue, unless you count the postal system having to pre-fund it’s retirement system 70-some years in advance. That’s pretty impressive. And the post office lets me mail unwrapped shovels too (more on that later). A few ounces of paper arrives in the one place in the world I want it to go, all for less than a buck. I’ve mailed plenty of letters to distant countries. When I mail a letter in Ohio, it’s often delivered in Boston or Denver the next afternoon. our postal service is often described as inefficient and unprofitable. (The letter, not the collar.)īut first a rant. Opening a personal letter seems like a pleasure from another era, irrelevant as a starched collar. Most of us don’t get anything interesting in the mail. (Image: CC by 2.0 Wikimedia Kev pittsburgh,pa)
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