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From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Stamp-out the Post Office
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 01:42:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 01:42:28 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!nrh    Jan 21 13:07:00 1985

>***** inmet:net.flame / spp2!stassen /  5:57 pm  Jan 20, 1985
>
>	Yes, 22 cents is too much.  However, until you're willing to
>deliver my mail anywhere in the US in 3 days for less, I think I'll
>deal with the post office.  If you want to complain about exorbitant
>wages, flame about the auto companies where assembly-line workers
>*START* at > $20/hour!!!!!
>
>					-- Chris

Well, the post office is worth screaming about.  The fact that it's a
state-mandated monopoly means that even if someone is WILLING to 
deliver mail for less, the post office won't let them.

This was tested a few Christmas seasons ago, when a private firm offered
to deliver excess mail for 18 cents/piece (allowing the PO 2 cents) without
restriction as to quantity, and the PO turned them down.