On: A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon ...

[orwin]

Yes. I think natural monopolies should be exploited by government (or government adjacent), rather than by regulated companies, but that comes with the expectation of full disclosure/transparency so bad practice can be voted out.

I'd rather have a publicly traded company own a natural monopoly (with some regulation) than an opaque government agency.

[dathinab → orwin]

agreed

but then the government also has the power to make any opaque government agency fully transparent

and for cases like USPS the only reason they might want to not do so seems to me to be corruption and/or hidden subventions.