Very rarely is Sarah Palin not on her game and not up on what is going on in the real world.
So to hide the actual cost of transporting someone to the middle of nowhere, one only needs to mail a letter to that place, then hop on the plane with the mail sack, and users of the postal service gets to pay a good portion of the bill?
Sounds like liberal ideology to me. If Alaska wants to use it’s oil money to foot that bill, it’s none of my concern. But when the rest of us get to pay for a choice, that’s where it starts becoming my business. While such things might become a sudden shock, hey, if you’re living out in the middle of the tundra, you really should be able to live out on the tundra without payments and support from outside. If you can’t, time to move on.
I live in one of those remote Alaskan villages. She’s right. We are gouged by UPS and Fed Ex. A $2.00 part costs $32.00 in shipping from them. If we lose the USPO mail services due to budget cuts and higher costs, we will be back to the days of one mail day a month at a huge cost without regular airplane flights in and out of our villages. As it is, we don’t have mail delivery like most cities are accustomed. We in the villiges never have. You go to the post office or local mail distributor to get your mail. Some times out of the mail bag itself from the plane that delivered it who takes your mail back with him/her.