[Parley Baer]

The USPS unions? Just wondering what role they have played in the bloated cost of running the US Postal Service?

[Vigilanteman]

The USPS is fond of telling you that you 44 cents for a first class letter will get you delivery to a remote village in Alaska 3000 miles away. What they won't tell you is that the same 44 cents is required to deliver your building to an apartment building 2 miles away.

New Zealand, meanwhile, will deliver a domestic letter for less than US$0.36! And they will let you go up to 500 grams, about 18 times greater than our one ounce limit to stay within 44 cents.

To be fair, they will charge you more for sending a letter to America (US$ 1.28) than what we charge to send a letter to New Zealand ($0.98). But, again, they allow a thicker and heavier letter.