[lbo-talk] the free market at work

[Alan Rudy]

C'mon Joanna, Progressives believe in efficiency - Samuel P. Hays taught us
that almost sixty years ago... if it ain't efficient - public or/vs. private
- it ain't worth a damn, so screw it.  Now go out there and only pay - by
yourself, along, and expending as little as possible, of course - for only
efficient services and goods.  The whole idea of the commonweal is out-dated
and inefficient.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:30 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> What the hell Woj? This is a response to the destruction of another public
> institution?
>
> As for junk mail, just write "return to sender" & post.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 6:24:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the free market at work
>
> I dunno.  Hardly anything good comes in the mail nowadays - mostly
> junk mail and bills, which is a great subsidy to advertisers.  As far
> as USPS parcel rates are concerned, they are on a par what UPS or
> Fedex charge.
>
> While we are at that - it may help USPS revenue if every person used
> business reply envelopes received in junk mail to send a "business
> reply" to the sender - like stuffing a gutter cleaning offer to AmEx
> business reply envelope, and the Amex pre-approved credit offer to the
> gutter cleaning company, stuffing the menu of a Chinese restaurant to
> the business reply envelope that came with an offer of life insurance
> - you get the drift.  AFAIK, USPS charges per piece rate for every
> business reply envelope they deliver, so it would be a nice and fun
> way of making businesses subsidize a public service.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
> wrote:
> >> How they're killing the post office
> >>
> >> http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1061994
> >
> > I was thinking the other day that people really don't get how much of a
> blow
> > this would be to daily life.  I've started telling people that whenever
> they
> > look down at their cellphone and see "no bars" that this is what a
> country
> > with only competitive mail delivery will look like: large areas with "no
> > bars" of mail delivery.
> >
> > /jordan
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