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.