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Domestic shippers should not exist (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I had a realization that the very existence of private domestic shippers in countries indicates a failure of their government to provide universal infrastructure needed by all citizens.

There may be specialized needs like same-day couriers, special handling requirements and other edge cases, but those should be small specialty houses, not international mega-corps.

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[–] [S] -1 points 4 days ago

The existence of direct competitors to the government's are indicative of, but not tantamount to a government failure, yes. If a tax-subsidized government service leaves so much room in the market that a direct, like-for-like competing business can profitably exist, it is hard to envision how that could be so without the government service being a failure in some way.

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