Rep. Connolly: ‘If You Privatize the Postal Service, There’s Not a Piece of Mail that Could Be Delivered in Alaska for Any Kind of Reasonable Price’

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CONNOLLY: "Well, we're not Germany or the Netherlands. We‘re a country of 335 million people, huge expand, big, big states with remote rural areas that need to be serviced. You look at a state like Alaska. If you privatize the postal service, there‘s not a piece of mail that could be delivered in Alaska for any kind of reasonable price. By having a national service, we‘re able to sort of spread out the costs and make sure that everyone is treated fairly and equally. So, we don‘t have the same kind of situation that they have in Germany or the Netherlands, and I think it‘s a false analogy."