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From that article, it's not clear what USPS is getting the blame for here. Reading between the lines, it sounds like a startup asked them to reroute their custo
by paulgb 6y ago
From that article, it's not clear what USPS is getting the blame for here. Reading between the lines, it sounds like a startup asked them to reroute their customers' mail to them, and USPS said "no we don't do that"?
They ultimately found a way around it but shut down due to lack of sign-ups[1], so it seems like USPS saved themselves some time.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/outbox-shuts-down/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/outbox-shuts-down/
- acdha 6y agoAny time I read something like this, the safe assumption is that this is how they’re telling their investors that the problem wasn’t a couple of recent business school grads trying to get rich quick parachuting into a business they don’t understand: “[we] knew that the USPS would not be able to work out its own problems, so perhaps naively, we hoped to partner with USPS to provide an alternative to the physical delivery of postal mail to a subset of users, hoping this would spur further innovation and cost savings.”