USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by DangitBobby on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:08PM (#41000914)

This isn't exactly true. Even with junk mail they aren't profitable. But being profitable is a non-goal; they exist to serve the people, not to allow 3rd parties to harass them endlessly.

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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by kelnos on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:56AM (#41003122)

That's not really the point. If they didn't push junk mail so hard, they'd be insolvent and fail. Profitability is not the issue.

> But being profitable is a non-goal; they exist to serve the people

Agree, but someone should probably tell Congress that.

The situation is trash (literally; 95% of my mail goes directly to the recycling bin), but conservatives want the USPS to behave more like a business, and its funding -- and need to do crappy things -- reflects that.

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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by colejohnson66 on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:45AM (#41004735)

I never said they should be profitable, just that junk mail funds them.

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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by Eumenes on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:26AM (#41005127)

Sounds like they exist to serve big business pumping out tons and tons of land fill routed trash, subsidized by the federal government/taxpayers. Given they're unionized, they can just lobby whomever to keep this unicorn status. Federal agencies should not be allowed to unionize.

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