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Originally Posted by Akula
Visited the post office to mail a letter and bought some stamps. It costs 50 cents to send a letter domestically. It costs 35 cents to send a postcard domestically. I then went to Publix supermarket and while going through the fruit section noticed that bananas all the way from Honduras cost 69 cents per lb.
Couple items came to mind:
1. How much does it cost to produce a banana in Honduras?
2. Anybody have the cost buildup from Honduras to the retail price of 69 cents per lb?
3. With ideal growing conditions (temp and rain), is it really possible to produce bananas commercially in the US to compete against imports?
4. We need to hire the guys, who run the banana industry, to run the US post office.
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The banana plantations are company owned and/or contracted (Chiquita, Del Monte, Dole, Fyffes, National Companies}. I believe they also own their own ships (most anyways) to transport bananas to the foreign markets.
I can agree with number 4 in principle, but the Banana Co would import a large number of green card immigrants to run the Post office and then pocket all the money they saved. ... Pres. Trump will not like it or allow it.