text: It has been pointed out by the American co-authors of this paper that a post could rationalize its delivery costs by reducing the frequency of service on unprofitable routes to the point where they become profitable ( Cohen et al .
  
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  It was pointed out by the co-authors that the post could rationalize the delivery costs by lowering the frequency of service on bad routes until they finally stopped losing $ 100,000 a year on them .