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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons by rietta on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:29PM (#50433867)
They got to make money somewhere. Congress has been starving them for budget for decades.
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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons by bezier-curve on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:42PM (#50433988)
This is also a congress-made problem as they privatized the USPS and created this pointless exercise of making them turn a profit, while being regulated like no other company (because that's us admitting we need mail).
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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons by rietta on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:30PM (#50434470)
Which I don't get because the USPS is authorized in the Constitution.
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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons by mindslight on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:41PM (#50436138)
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