[quote=flu]I guarantee that increasing prices isn’t going to make the service any better in the public sector. Because lacking any meaningful competition, there is little incentive for the USPS to actually improve. That clerk taking his/her candy-axx time at the counter and taking a coffee break when there’s a line 2 deep, I’m sure would be unheard of at the Fedex/UPS store….[/quote]
And you as a consumer have that option. If you want to save a few minutes in line, spend a few extra bucks to send your stuff through UPS/FedEx.
[quote=flu]Unrelated. Water is another great example.. For so many months, we were told to conserve water. And when people actually did and the water usage went down, water co. decides to raise rates???Hmmmmmmmmm…..[/quote]
Again, I think we should be paying more for water, just as we should be paying more for gas/postage/etc. Water is a scarce resource and we currently pay a fraction of the true cost. Perhaps if we payed more equal to the true cost of water we’d use a lot less. The same goes for gas or any other limited resource.
Point being, subsidies hide unintended consequences of over-consumption of limited resources.
