Why is US postage the same for 2 miles and 2000 miles?
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To keep it simple. The post office could charge more for a letter sent beyond a certain distance (and they do for bulk mailings), but they’d probably spend more money chasing down small amounts of postage due than they’d gain. Imagine a kid in California sending their grandma in Pennsylvania a letter, but the kid is short on postage by $0.08 and the letter gets returned. Nobody wins.
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