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Mail delivery, like many internet services, has very nice economies of scale. Once you are paying the setup cost for someone to go to every door every day, the
by jellicle 6y ago
Mail delivery, like many internet services, has very nice economies of scale. Once you are paying the setup cost for someone to go to every door every day, the marginal cost of adding one more package is not high. So USPS can probably offer any particular mail-sender very low rates and justify them with the idea that the revenue exceeds their marginal cost to deliver (though if they offer everyone such low rates they won't be covering their true overall costs).
- luckylion 6y agoProbably, but that's for regular mail only, not for parcels because you don't go to every door every day and deliver larger packages.