somewhat related but for those outside the US, the governments candor with the postal service is nothing short of schizophrenia. for the past 40 some years the

somewhat related but for those outside the US, the governments candor with the postal service is nothing short of schizophrenia. for the past 40 some years theyve worked to basically bankrupt the entire service under some misplaced neoliberal economic imperative that somehow private industry will delight in delivering an ikea catalogue to the furthest foetid reaches of alaskan frozen tundra, and that somehow the postal service as it exists currently is wrong and bad for not turning a 15% profit year over year, every year, until the end of years. the last US president famously worked to remove and destroy postal sorting machines and even outright blocked funding entirely for the organization which singlehandedly created a crisis that still endures in 2022. now somehow the governments forgotten its holy crusade against grandmas crypto puzzles and uncle ed's mail order cigars and decided screw it, they provide not only the worst service in the history of government services but surprise, now they provide a critical lynchpin of healthcare designed to detect and identify a global pandemic thats killed millions. the irony is that somehow im sure a bureaucrat will champion this as an innovation, when for the past forever most americans have ordered cheap prescription drugs through the post from Canada and Mexico to treat a cornucopia of other diseases their healthcare system cant seem to without bankrupting them.