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'Provide mail' can mean different things and its certainly not ever 'place'. It is very common in mountain towns to not have mailboxes at least not residential

'Provide mail' can mean different things and its certainly not ever 'place'. It is very common in mountain towns to not have mailboxes at least not residential so you have to go to a post office 5-15 miles away. Meanwhile Fedex & UPS will deliver to your door. That said the USPS is certainly an essential service and probably does serve certain niche locations better than UPS & Fedex.

Symbiote 5y ago
USPS charges the same, low (55¢) rate to send to these remote locations. FedEx won't tell me the cost without an account, but for UPS a domestic, ground letter (<1 lb) costs between $8.76 and $11.01, or $32+ for Alaska/Hawaii etc. Added to that, "remote areas" have a surcharge which is about $4 in the 48 states, $10 in Hawaii and $32 in Alaska. https://www.ups.com/assets/resources/media/en_US/daily_rates.pdf https://www.ups.com/assets/resources/media/en_US/daily_rates... https://www.ups.com/gb/en/shipping/zones-and-rates/area-surcharge.page https://www.ups.com/gb/en/shipping/zones-and-rates/area-surc...