In the last few years, I had to send a number of overnight letters, personally. Without the advantage of a corporate discount, the USPS price was half of that

In the last few years, I had to send a number of overnight letters, personally. Without the advantage of a corporate discount, the USPS price was half of that of the private competitors. It's things like this that individual consumers are giving up with this push to privatization. Big boys get breaks; the rest of us get screwed. Efficiency at scale doesn't work, when you're not part of the scale. See, for example, individual rates for health care insurance.