No, you see that's the way it works in the Communist countries. The government tells you how to do things and you do them that way, or else.
You beloved Postal "Service," would be out of business if they allowed competition. We always hear that we cannot allow competition because no business would deliver the mail to the Aleutian Islands because of the cost involved. Well, it costs them a lot less to deliver my disk to NYC than it does to deliver anything to the Aleutian Islands. They had been doing it for years at the the regular (inflated) first class rate.
As for your special mailers, I have them. They are "non-standard" and stiff too; and they cost about a buck a piece. My envelopes cost me about a nickel each. Only a government drone would make the suggestions that you have made to me.
ML/NJ
You sound like a good liberal artist I heard lecture. As she was forced away from the fine arts school that had nurtured and supported her for 8 years, she learned she had to make a living working.
She had a masters degree in fine arts and was a very accomplished wood worker. Unfortunately she didn’t like to make things that didn’t comply with her artistic ideals. He thing was” a dialogue with lines and dots” Everything she made from wood was decorated with lead pencil lines and dots. There was a dot and then a line connecting it to another dot and so on.
She decided she would make framed mirrors. The wood frames were painted with flat paint and then covered with the lines and dots, thus expressing the unique dialogue. She learned to her dismay that she had to do the shipping and packing. She also learned that boxes for the purpose were not available in the random sizes of her completed work. To buy the available packaging, she must standardize her frame sizes and thus surrender the freedom of artistic line and dot dialogue.
At the time of the lecture, she was but weeks away from being kicked out of the academic nest and still had no idea about where she was going or what she was going to do. She could not get over the fact she had to either use available standard packing materials or spend the time and money to develop and fabricate her own. She was an artist and packing was mundane activity for riff raff. She had a masters degree!!!
First you demand lower cost, then refuse the advice of an expert who tells you how to get it. What’s wrong with the GOP these days again?
I'm sorry I cannot join you in a rejection of modernism ~ so, back into your cave.