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To: Dr. Sivana
"In other ways, they have the worst of both worlds. They have to pay, through our postage, for a bunch of remote rinky dink post offices, pensions from the subsidized era in an era of declining mail volume, special rates for media mail and blind postage that have to be made up for by other classes, franked mail from congress-critters, delivery to AK, HI, APO and a number of far-flung territories for the same 42 cents, and other impositions that FedEx and UPS don't have to deal with."

Sorta like AMTRAK, Huh ???

32 posted on 07/03/2008 1:49:24 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: litehaus
Sorta like AMTRAK, Huh ???

Very much so. However, I believe that Amtrak still gets enough subsidy to keep it floundering around. This would be an excellent time to privatize, as interest in rail travel must increase with the price of fuel as it is. Amtrak is not equipped to address that.
39 posted on 07/03/2008 2:40:03 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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