Readers’ blog: The apparently ‘most efficient’ is not always ‘the best’

The apparently “most efficient” is not always “the best”.
The cost to benefit analysis modelling could have indicated we have to maintain efficiency at a “peak efficacy” through removal of small rural post offices. Letter communication and basic services are constrained. And so it was early in the 1970s around closures of small rural schools. Small communities were further reduced.