I was reading Braudel's text and he said that for each leg of a journey
(12-18 miles) the courier would charge 1 ducat. Thus trans mediterranean
letters could cost an entire year's pay.
-fabio
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:10:30PM -0600, fabio guillermo rojas wrote
Last summer, I argued with a friend over the privatization of the postal
service. He said that the postal service already did a good job as
one could ask for. A bystander opined that without market forces, how
could one
A true and recent story, that is amazingly on point:
In May of 1999, I bet my brother that NY Met shortstop Rey Ordonez could
not accomplish the not-so-impressive feat of a .340 on-base percentage.
(For those of you who are not baseball fans, fret not; there's no more
baseball involved in this
Last summer, I argued with a friend over the privatization of the postal
service. He said that the postal service already did a good job as
one could ask for. A bystander opined that without market forces, how
could one really know if a job was done efficiently or not?
With the postal service,
Good point, Alex. I think I like the medieval example because it's
a little more shocking - the US Post does about the same job as
private postal carriers in the Dark Ages.
-fabio
You don't have to go back that far. The Pony Express had speeds
comparable to today's US Post Office on
