The United States Post Office
A) faces no competition for its mail services.
B) has a monopoly in the provision of first-class mail service.
C) can safely ignore the prices for mail services charged by its rivals such as FedEx and UPS.
D) is an example of a monopoly that results from the ownership of a key resource: first class mail service.
Answer: B
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