You can’t blame the USPS for junk mail. They deliver, as fast as they can, and that’s it.
They also establish postage rates. Those rates are specifically designed to maximize revenue from junk mail. So, yes, I can actually place a large part of the blame for junk mail directly on the postal service. They need the revenue from that junk mail to stay solvent. Without that junkmail, they would bankrupt themselves.
Which means their primary business is trash distribution. If uBlock functioned in the real world, the first thing it would block would be highway billboards, followed immediately by the USPS in its entirety.
One thing that should be brought back to the post, and my president, Elizabeth Warren, agrees, is payday check loans.
I fully agree with that. Basic banking services should be a core function of the post office.
Yes, I know, I meant that you can’t blame the USPS for being required to function as a corporation.They are constantly targeted. If they were to not generate a profit, this would surely give more ammunition to the morons that think privatizing (more to the point, destroying their union) the USPS will make things better or more efficient. By necessity they have to make money where they can.
I brought up the old credit and savings service because it provided genuinely useful and helpful options for people, and it generated enough money for the post that they didn’t have to lean on such cheap tactics as soliciting junk mail. I don’t think the thousands of mail sorters are happy about it either; it’s demoralizing to sift through and dump garbage onto people for a living.
They also establish postage rates. Those rates are specifically designed to maximize revenue from junk mail. So, yes, I can actually place a large part of the blame for junk mail directly on the postal service. They need the revenue from that junk mail to stay solvent. Without that junkmail, they would bankrupt themselves.
Which means their primary business is trash distribution. If uBlock functioned in the real world, the first thing it would block would be highway billboards, followed immediately by the USPS in its entirety.
I fully agree with that. Basic banking services should be a core function of the post office.
Yes, I know, I meant that you can’t blame the USPS for being required to function as a corporation.They are constantly targeted. If they were to not generate a profit, this would surely give more ammunition to the morons that think privatizing (more to the point, destroying their union) the USPS will make things better or more efficient. By necessity they have to make money where they can.
I brought up the old credit and savings service because it provided genuinely useful and helpful options for people, and it generated enough money for the post that they didn’t have to lean on such cheap tactics as soliciting junk mail. I don’t think the thousands of mail sorters are happy about it either; it’s demoralizing to sift through and dump garbage onto people for a living.