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.
Oh, maybe. But once you have the infra to send a person to every house for mail, the rest isn’t as hard.
But we do have that. USPS will ship up to 70lbs, which will cover 99% of use cases.
Mercenary shipping is like mercenary healthcare. Sure we can pretend we don’t need it, or we can avoid it, but it never stops being a cost that eventually comes around to all of us – only with layers of profit added on.