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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by skybrian on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:23PM (#24030405)
Demand is way up due to the pandemic. Amazon hired 175,000 temporary workers to keep up with demand [1]. All the Trump adminstration had to do to cause a problem was not hire any extra help and disallow overtime.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-reaches-1-million-w...

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by arp242 on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:34AM (#24035038)
A business[1] getting in to financial trouble because of massive increase in customers is indeed a curious affair.

[1]: Which the USPS is not, but let's be flexible with the term.

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