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Originally Posted by burnafterreading
so? there's still an ocean in the way. not like you can just drive your Peterbilt there. physical product still has to get shifted from road/rail to air/boat, and the operating costs of air/boat are much higher than rail, so that changes the picture.
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I believe, though, that the US Mail is like the Royal Mail in Britain: it will deliver to any part of the country for the same price, so it's no more expensive to post a package from New York to Hawaii than it is to post it from New York to New Jersey.