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Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by _heimdall on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:50PM (#41001895)
If properly funded, do you really want the USPS filtering your mail to only deliver what they think you want delivered?

Their job isn't to stop junk mail. Their job is to reliably deliver whatever mail has my address on it to my mailbox.

Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by reaperman on Friday July 19, 2024 @01:02AM (#41002119)
They don't have to provide bulk-mailing services to non-government entities. This is where someone says "Mail one of these advertisement packages to every person in this district", and it's not actually addressed to you. This would raise the cost of mailing spam to the same cost as mailing real letters.
Re:USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn... by kelnos on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:58AM (#41003141)
Not filtering, no, but I would like them to set bulk mail prices high enough to actually reflect the cost of the externalities of sending (and trashing) that mail. Fewer companies would send so much junk if they had to pay for its true cost.