It's a service that charges the same for mailing a letter from rural Alaska to New York as it charges from New Jersey to New York, to facilitate communication a

It's a service that charges the same for mailing a letter from rural Alaska to New York as it charges from New Jersey to New York, to facilitate communication and commerce. A situation where a loss on this one service is far outweighed by the benefits it brings to the society and economy. And it's not even running at a loss a fair portion of the time.