Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
by NavinF on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:53AM
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Would you allow other companies to deliver letters and to deliver stuff inside mailboxes? I find it disgusting that a company with a monopoly on those two services still can't make a profit.
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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
by wavefunction on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:56AM
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Someone just bringing whatever shit they want to my house? Junkmail needs to be deregulated? Everytime I hear the "notions" of the libertarian/hypercapitalist ilk it just sounds like "What if your life could be even shittier than it is now?!?"
Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
by doikor on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:15AM
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It can’t make profit because USPS is not allowed to set the prices of its services.
Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
by lovich on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:05PM
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They also have to deliver to every valid residential address.
You wouldn’t see UPS or fedex running a mule train to make sure an area still gets mail[1]
If we let other companies take over and kill the USPS we’ll just see a ton of areas of the country not get delivered too because the profit margin isn’t there.
Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
by velcrovan on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:08AM
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Public services don’t exist to make a profit.
The finances of your police and fire departments, your libraries and public schools, and the military, are all “dogshit” by this absurd reasoning.