You can send letters via FedEx and UPS, they just need to be in the big manila envelopes

That was their decision not to take letters and ship them en masse

but no regular letter envelopes

no, its cuz its illegal for them to do that

tbh the postal service should start getting privatized,

If its in the public sector you pay taxes for it, and how many people still use letters?

e-mailzz

state has a monopoly on sending the regular letter envelopes

Well, all the junk mail companies, for a start

they still use letters

doesnt make sense to give ANY corporation legal privileges to monopolize a market

Well, another way to put it would be that the postal service was grandfathered in as a monopoly

By the time most of the big parcel-shipping companies were created, the USPS had already been shipping letters for quite some time

privatize the post office because they should be subject to market competition just like everyone else in the organic market

i think a totally free market naturally tends towards monopolies because of economies of scale, there needs to be some method of encouraging competition in order to advance economies

doesnt matter... its an unfair business practice ... its just a business/corporation after all

NO reason why it should have monopolistic legal privileges

agree that monopolies are bad, but either extreme creates monopolies

not really..... what are some examples of true free market monopolies?

standard oil

aside from the fact that only "Facebook" can do facebook, etc

the bigger you get the cheaper per unit of x you can buy

but you see... all these big corporations get all sorts of subsidies and kickbacks and other PRIVILEGES from the state

so not really free market

which is why we have antitrust laws

yes that also comes with scale

and i agree is bad

you can buy out politicians if youre huge - shouldnt be able to do that

the thing is..... the bigger a business/corporation/organization gets... the more inefficient it gets

so the easier it is to compete with them from more efficient smaller businesses

Hang on, playing devil's advocate for a moment, why shouldn't you be able to buy out a politician if you've got enough money?

If you've got the money, why not spend it?

Re-invest in the market, as it were

theres really no good examples of truely free market monopolies because free market competition always keeps incumbants in check

thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z0wEN1v6Ko

morally speaking there is a conflict of interests, since politicians present themselves as serving the people

but interesting question

Yeah, but that doesn't make the act of buying them wrong in and of itself. Their decision to accept the offer is what's wrong, according to that logic.

and big corps "monopolies" lobby for all sorts of regulations in order to quelch competition.... to make the barrier to entry much harder

bcuz big corps can afford it, but small business cannot afford smothering regulations.. so it works in the giants' favor

theres a lot more going on in Venezuela than meets the eye

i think both parties are in the wrong in that situation