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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3215525, member: 66"]That's OK, they will just order a whole bunch more of them to reduced the per unit shipping cost. But like I said the Postal Regulatory Commission will probably cut that back to to 2 cents instead of five. I believe the domestic postal rates most everywhere in the world are high compared to ours. Actually yes it IS more efficient to have mail shipped to a few sorting hubs rather than have it all sorted at every individual Post office and then shipped from there to every other post office.  It can introduce inefficiencies for a very local delivery piece of mail, but the overall efficiency for ALL the mail service is improved. You could probably improve the local delivery if the post office had two boxes, one for local deliveries and one for everywhere else.  But how do you define "local delivery"  Within the zip code?  Within the zip code and the immediately surrounding zip codes?  What about the next city over?  How much mail would actually get shipped to the next city over?  Is it worth driving a truck back and forth every day to carry that amount?  And how do you get people to keep that mail separate?  You would probably have to keep that separate box at the Post office.  Would you be willing to make a special trip to the post office every time you wanted to send a local delivery letter?  Most people would rather just add it to the rest of their outgoing mail and send it out together.[/QUOTE]