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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by graphpercolator on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:56AM (#30455416)
US Postal Service at this point is mostly paying people to deliver paper advertisements though.

It has to be about 50 to 1 at this point in terms of the ratio of important mail I get compared to junk mail that goes straight in the garbage.

It doesn't have to be profitable but the cost to send mail should cover the operation. It is absurd that it is worth it for so many companies to flood people with literal garbage.

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Re:How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink by jackson1442 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:19AM (#30456482)
FedEx and UPS both use USPS to do unprofitable last-mile deliveries, and USPS is the backbone of our identity system (delivering identification documents, credit cards, etc).
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