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SolaceQuantum | 5 years ago

What are the laws preventing UPS from delivering to extremely rural areas?

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chrisseaton|5 years ago

> What are the laws preventing UPS from delivering to extremely rural areas?

Apparently it's literally illegal for anyone but USPS to put something in your mailbox https://blog.oup.com/2017/07/mailboxes-us-mail/.

SolaceQuantum|5 years ago

That’s not what I asked but okay. Also the reference is what looks to be on some persons blog post.

toomuchtodo|5 years ago

Economics.

cjsawyer|5 years ago

We still need someone to do it.

curiousgeorgio|5 years ago

The same laws I described, along with pricing. While the laws don't directly prohibit private delivery to those areas, they greatly reduce the economic incentive to do so by (1) prohibiting delivery to regular mailboxes and, (2) allowing USPS to charge such low rates so as to lose money on every delivery (no one can compete with that).