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Re:Ban Pay to View Content on Hacker News? by breckenedge on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:14AM (#29094122)
> The US is currently dismantling their Post Office

Where did you read this? The US postal system is not being dismantled, it’s meant to be self funded and it cannot meet its financial obligations.

> required to be funded by their Constitution.

It only empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads." That’s the entire Post Office clause.

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Re:Ban Pay to View Content on Hacker News? by sofixa on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @09:56AM (#29094585)
> it’s meant to be self funded and it cannot meet its financial obligations

Since when are public services required to be self funded? Are the army, police or DMV self funded? And don't their obligations included obviously biased ( in favour of painting the post office as a financially ruinous institution and privatise/dismantle it) provisions for full pensions of future employees, which nobody else does, anywhere?

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Re:Ban Pay to View Content on Hacker News? by breckenedge on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:12PM (#29097522)
It’s that way because Congress makes it that way. That’s how they decided to run it and they are the only people able to change it.
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