U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored

Re:U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They ... by nomel on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:25PM (#22860220)

I would like to see a fee for unsolicited bulk mail senders to help pay for the service, along with a "do not mail" list.

I would prefer that nobody subsidies the delivery of landfill to my mailbox.

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Re:U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They ... by lwf on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:41PM (#22860410)

It's the other way around: bulk mail is incredibly cheap to sort, route, and transport, and it's that which subsidizes your hand-addressed letters.

The USPS literally has a service "deliver this flyer to every residential mailbox in this ZIP". It's cheaper per-item than a letter, yes, but the margins on "stuff a bunch of identical objects into N boxes" are much higher than "figure out which of N boxes this 1 unique mailpiece goes to".

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Re:U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They ... by megablast on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:39PM (#22861995)

> I would like to see a fee for unsolicited bulk mail senders to help pay for the service,

This is how it currently works, the USPS gets money for delivering bulk mail.

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