seems like that would make the whole system incredibly inefficient and could even damage items, but if it is true, there is no reason something similar couldn't be implemented in a p2p model.
Incredibly inefficient, exactly. Then we lose to normal grocery delivery services because they don't have to do anything like the postal service does.
This is why I don't believe a pure p2p replacement of a postal service is feasible, but it should be possible to tell a random driver to buy a kilo of tomatos in a random supermarket and deliver it. This is subpar because we'd like the supplier to use bitcoin too.
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