Re:U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They ...
by Kalium on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:38PM
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The financial structure is very different. Email service providers deal with the costs imposed by spam. They wish to be rid of it. The USPS derives much of their revenue from direct mail advertising. They depend on it.
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Re:U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They ...
by Etheryte on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:23AM
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This argument is not convincing, if the postal service can't be sustainable on its own without sending spam, surely the right answer would be to address the problem at the root. Think of the time and effort wasted nationwide in producing, delivering and then subsequently throwing away this amount of advertising. Surely it would collectively be cheaper to simply not produce most of it to begin with?