Can The U.S. Be More Scandinavian In Postal Service

Matt Yglesias wonders how to fix the USPS. Privatization or public private partnership? This question should definitely be explored?
I agree with Yglesias that we need to question the subsidy given to rural residents at the expense of metropolitan dwellers. I would be interested to know the cost basis of mail service for metropolitan versus rural regions.

Yglesias writes:

"Of course part of the story with the USPS is that it’s a way of having the majority of Americans who live in metropolitan area subsidize the rural minority. I assume this same issue exists in Sweden and Norway which contain US-esque large sparsely populated hinterlands and I don’t know how they handle it. Providing subsidies for rural living doesn’t strike me as a particularly worthwhile policy objective, but given the strongly pro-rural bias of our political institutions it doesn’t seem avoidable either."

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