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Yeah, it is spending a little more for those rural customers due to additional distance traveled. However, the have been using flat-rate shipping within the US
by Olreich 6y ago
Yeah, it is spending a little more for those rural customers due to additional distance traveled. However, the have been using flat-rate shipping within the US for a long time, so they know the price they need to maintain. Postage is still 55 cents for most letters in the US, which doesn’t seem particularly bad. UK has ~80 cents a stamp as the cheapest I found. Germany was praised elsewhere in the thread and has stamps at ~90 cents a letter.
So yeah, based on how cheap it is to send mail in the US, and the fact that USPS would be profitable venture if they weren’t screwed over by horrible laws (pension prefunding, etc.), the USPS is very efficient and shouldn’t be parceled out to states.