[dungdang]

it's more be'efitial to have flat rent that doesn't price peoplenout of living in certain cities simly due to housing rates. housing is an essential service.

soo how that works?

locations have different expenses. farms have cheap land. they have expensive delivery cost. taking money from people paying high rent to subsidize farmers is not 'benefitial' to people living in cities. it's benefitial to farmers. how about everyone pay their own expenses, and we don't shuffle around other people's costs. it's not benefitial to me to pay for a farmer getting fifty junk mail catalogs a week.

[quickthrowman]

> it's more be'efitial to have flat rent that doesn't price peoplenout of living in certain cities simly due to housing rates. housing is an essential service.

All first-class letters of 1 oz or less are identical. Housing is not identical, which is why it’s fine to have varying prices for housing. Many places have rent controls in place. The utility of having flat rate letter postage for every citizen outweighs any benefit realized from privatization.

> taking money from people paying high rent to subsidize farmers is not 'benefitial' to people living in cities.

This has been done for quite a while in the US, as crop subsidy payments. People in cities benefit by having stable food prices.

> it's not benefitial to me to pay for a farmer getting fifty junk mail catalogs a week.

You’re not paying for it, hope that helps.

[dungdang]

you don't know it's a federal crime for anyone but usps to do letter service. you don't know a company was shut down by the feds for trying. you don't know the whole argument people have been debating now and for the last 150 years is to allow private companies to handle letters.

so you looked it up, saw you were wrong, and changed your argument to 'parcel service' = 'letter service.'

you were given examples of why people want letter service from private companies, and how urban citizens pay for rural letter costs.

your argument at that point us 'you don't pay for it, the money to cover costs comes from a magic place, but if you do, quickthrowman has determined it's worth it, so case closed.'

thank you for the entertainment.