millievfence:typhlonectes:Save the U.S. Postal Service!These are prices, not costs. FedEx’s prices a
millievfence:typhlonectes:Save the U.S. Postal Service!These are prices, not costs. FedEx’s prices are inflated by a law mandating they outstrip USPS’s price (although they exceeded what’s legally mandated here), and USPS’s rural prices are deflated by subsidy from urban routes.Prices are not costs and costs are not prices. Price is only very indirectly a function of cost. -- source link