Loathe as I am to link wikipedia, I don't think that's right.
Except that the US Postal service used to have excellent service, despite being the only player on the market. Your analogy doesn't work when the service we already had was top notch, but has only lost it's functionally through players in the market... or the fact that any other carrier is going to have a lesser service for fundamental reasons of profit.
Whaaat? Excellent service? The postal service has been a running gag of inefficiency, bureaucracy and ineptitude as long as living memory. The last time people spoke of it with pride was the pony express. Eliminate the choice of the US Postal service?! They have a federally enforced monopoly!
Except it's NOT a monopoly because other services do compete with it and are doing so successfully. Or are you claiming that Fed-Ex and UPS are small, struggling companies? They could have as much coverage and delivery service as they wanted, but have chosen to restrict their service for profitability reasons. Their size and scope is entirely of their own doing. And ONE of these companies would have a de-facto government enforced advantage eventually anyway when one of said companies wins the contract for foreign military base service.
Let me tell you a real life story. In houston, about 30 years ago, there used to be a guy, first generation immigrant, who figured out he could support himself by making a circuit among all the hospitals and carrying messages/small parcels between them multiple times a day. He had it all worked out and was doing a good job. Hospitals that paid his fee were getting correspondence and other items they would normally have to mail to each other and a reply back again same day, as he had a circuit among all his customers that he made about 5 times a day. It was a great arrangement - he was gainfully (self) employed, supporting his family, the hospitals got fast same-day-multiple-times-a-day delivery between each other for a reasonable flat fee. It was really an inspiring tale of how the american dream was a reality and anyone with ingenuity and a willingness to put in the work could succeed while making a contribution to his community.
Ah, so I've told you this story before.
No, your moving the goalposts. This guy had every opportunity and imperative to ensure his courier job was on the up and up and took no effort in even attempting it. Had he done so, he'd likely still have a successful route and could have potentially expanded his business further. Now he has nothing and it's through no fault but his own. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.
Exactly.
Does anyone know how tower ownership is handled in other countries? Do they have to share their towers at a set fee? I know the cell companies in the US don't like to share if they put up their own tower, which would make the number of towers that need to be built here much higher since Verizon, ATT, T-mobile, Sprint, and others might need all their own towers.
This is why everything in the mail room at the hospital I work is separated into normal outgoing mail and inter service mail. Inter service mail often has time critical documents that need same day delivery, so it's the stuff that gets couriered. Everything else ether gets picked up by the post when they deliver the daily mail or dumped in the mailbox outside (because they have different pick-up times).
I only ask because around me, rural area, you can tell which tower has ATT and which has Verizon. In the towns they are sharing the tower, but outside of town it's like they all have their own. You have distinct areas of service with those two providers, they rarely overlap.
Well, he's no Ted Kaczynski, but he definitely has the violation of rights requirement down pat: Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner.
Man, I really empathize with folks who identify with another gender, but doesn't seem like a great idea for a wide variety of reasons.
Fun fact. I once asked a child, indulgently, whether they were a boy or a girl. The childs answer? Dinosaur. I guess schools are going to have a lot of renovations to do.
