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Re:FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig wo... by abigail95 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @01:49PM (#32879562)
USPS is a sanctioned monopoly with a USO.

It's illegal to compete with it.

It's like saying AT&T "worked". Sure you could buy a phone service and pay $$$$ for it, but if I had a better way of running it, they would put me in jail for trying.

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Re:FTC to crack down on companies taking advantage of gig wo... by sudosysgen on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:46PM (#32881418)
The monopoly is only over mail and is scarcely enforced nowadays. And yet USPS is still cheaper and better on parcels where it doesn't have a monopoly, so much so that private parcel delivery will often just use USPS.
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