Re:Detailed Financial Histories Exposed for Thousands
by bogomipz on Sunday December 03, 2017 @09:41AM
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>"In the United States, at least, the U.S. Postal Service is in a unique position to "pivot" to being an identity and "trust" provider."
The US Post Postal Service is most certainly not in a unique position to "pivot" to being an identity and "trust" provider."
It's actually quite unbelievable to think that a bloated organization with 500K employees[1] that relies on manual and mechanical processes can "pivot" to become a tech organization providing digital identity management.
The USPS "pivoted" to delivering junk mail for direct marketers years ago. Given that there largest customer is direct marketing, that alone makes them rather unfit to be an "identify provider."
The USPS government mandate is delivering mail and despite having a government sponsored monopoly to deliver mail to mailboxes it still loses money hand over fist[2].
The US Post Postal Service is most certainly not in a unique position to "pivot" to being an identity and "trust" provider."
It's actually quite unbelievable to think that a bloated organization with 500K employees[1] that relies on manual and mechanical processes can "pivot" to become a tech organization providing digital identity management.
The USPS "pivoted" to delivering junk mail for direct marketers years ago. Given that there largest customer is direct marketing, that alone makes them rather unfit to be an "identify provider."
The USPS government mandate is delivering mail and despite having a government sponsored monopoly to deliver mail to mailboxes it still loses money hand over fist[2].
[1] https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/employees-s...
[2] https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/postal-service...