You have several Glorious Free Market choices to get that letter delivered. UPS and Federal Express and several others.
No, I don't. It's illegal for them to offer first class mail delivery.
Just give em a call they will come right to you and take it to the consignee. You could even expedite it if you want it there faster. Be forewarned instead of 50 cents or so it may cost you a tad more.
Now it does, sure. Know why? Because (1) it's illegal for them to set up a system for first class mail delivery, so they don't have infrastructure in place to do it; (2) their would-be competition is government-subsidized.
You take away the post orifice's subsidy and legal monopoly--that is, allow alternatives--and the price of first class mail delivered by the USPS skyrockets because it's no longer kept artificially low, and the price of delivery through private means plummets. And they'd do it far better and more pleasantly, because THEY HAVE TO COMPETE FOR YOUR BUSINESS OR GO OUT OF BUSINESS, unlike the post orifice.
Don't you commies know anything about economics? Oh, wait, if you did, you wouldn't be commies...
You think any private company is going to go to every address in the U.S. and look for those little red flags?
It may be that that can't be done at the price it's being done for now, by anybody, because the PO can operate at a loss. Perhaps that's worth it to you and the rest of society (apparently it is), but because of that, you perpetuate the surly, lazy, incompetent postal workers. Introduce competition and everything improves.
You know why a domestic car costs thousands of dollars more than it need to? Because government has skewed the laws of economics in the labor market through labor union laws.
You know why the Cubs suck, have done so almost every year and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future? Because their fans allow them to. The Cubs could go 0-162 and their idiot fans will still fill that ballpark, eliminating any incentive for them to change. They're effectively shielded from the consequences of the suckiness, so they don't have to change. So they don't, and they continue to suck.
If you hold a ball in your hand, you're preventing gravity from affecting it. Release the ball and gravity will do its thing. It usually doesn't negatively impact us when you hold up a ball, unless it's an opponent who snatched it out of mid-air when you'd rather he didn't. But in economics, the central planners' interference always harms us. It's why things cost more than they should, and it's why when you deliver at an auto plant, you have to deal with rude, lazy, and overpaid employees. Take away their outrageous union protections--that is, stop shielding them from the effects of the free market--and they'd have to compete on a level playing field, and improve their product and customer service or face the consequences--going out of business!
We've removed the consequences for being rude and inefficient, so rude and inefficient is what we've got in the auto industry. Hey! Just like the post orifice, where we did the same thing!
Where I work, there's a guy in the shop who can't be fired except by the owner. He knows it, everybody else knows it, and he knows everybody else knows it. He's been shielded from the effects of the free market. Guess how much work he does. That's how the vast, vast majority of people work when you shield them from cause & effect, from the consequences of their actions. It's human nature. But the lefty central planners don't believe that's human nature and never take that into account. In addition, because he doesn't do his work, another employee must be kept on the payroll to do the work he should but doesn't, raising the cost for the company's customers. Finally see how this works?
Hey, just like the auto industry and the post orifice! Funny how that works so consistently!
