Hey! I lived in Talkeetna! ...and you're completely right. It is in the middle of freaking nowhere. Back on topic, I think you're right (despite the fact that

Hey! I lived in Talkeetna! ...and you're completely right. It is in the middle of freaking nowhere. Back on topic, I think you're right (despite the fact that it would make letters much more expensive where I live). There's no reason why someone in New York sending a letter to their friend in Albany should have to subsidize my 6-year-old self sending a letter to Idaho. That said, if they allowed competition, I would have far less of a problem, as the New York->Albany people could just go with another option. I'm not sure the post office could survive competition, but I don't really care - IMO, it's fundamentally economically unsound to prohibit competition in the marketplace (with a reasonable view of what the marketplace actually is).