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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by morpheuskafka on Monday July 27, 2020 @08:47AM (#23964548)
> meant to be a service (congress has to approve rate increases), but it's treated like a business.

This is exactly the way a utility works.

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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by hannasanarion on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:06AM (#23965792)
The difference is that utilities don't also have their liabilities defined in law. No electric company has a standing mandate to stuff $110 billion under a mattress so that they can pay pensions to people who won't be born until the next century.
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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by casefields on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:19PM (#23969509)
If they did PG&E couldn't just run to bankruptcy court and get away with all the fire and destruction they caused.

Maybe we should make more utilities be prepared like the USPS.

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