“The PO charge for mail is ridiculously cheap and unsupportable. 44 cents to send a Christmas letter and picture from Boston to Guam? Come on. The PO is on the hook because people demand cheap government services that have to be paid by everyone.”
Exactly.
If you were to go into a meeting of businessmen and present a model of a proposed business where customers could send a letter from Boston to Guam for .44 cents, the businessmen would laugh you out of the room and then call the nearest psychiatric hospital to have you thrown into a rubber room.
A similarly absurd package delivery model was once submitted by a student as a class project. The professor wrote on the paper “presentation & thoroughness warrants an A, but you’re getting a C because the notion is absurd.”
And thus FedEx was born.