As an economic matter, it is clear that a postal service is better off having a customer at a near-cost price than not having the customer at all.
It's worse if, from an economic point of view, a postal service doesn't have a customer at all.
He sat next to Johnny Carson and in his helium-pitched foreign man voice told jokes without punch lines (Her cooking ees so bad--ees terrible) and did non-impressionistic impressions