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Does any of that mean we need to lie and pretend that there's 100B pieces of useful mail being delivered? Just because there's a lot of useful mail doesn't mean
by furyofantares 2y ago
Does any of that mean we need to lie and pretend that there's 100B pieces of useful mail being delivered? Just because there's a lot of useful mail doesn't mean there's 100B of it. That number shouldn't pass anyone's sniff test.
- reaperducer 2y agoDoes any of that mean we need to lie and pretend that there's 100B pieces of useful mail being delivered? I haven't seen any indication that it's a lie. Please post a link to the proof. Is not a lie simply because it doesn't align with your political view. Note that what you consider junk mail, other people may find valuable. I know someone who digs those ValPack coupons.
- furyofantares 2y agoIt actually does align with my political view. Someone else posted some links in this thread already. But OK here: https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2024-09/risc-wp-24-008.pdf https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2024-09/...
- creato 2y agoI don't know if it's correct or not, but it doesn't fail my sniff test. It's an average of ~1 piece of mail per person per day. Most people probably don't get more than one piece of useful mail per week, but there are also people conducting business through the mail that might send or receive far more than that.
- collingreen 2y agoDoes the postal service only have value to you if it delivers 100B pieces of "useful" mail a year, according to some metric of useful? Even if I somehow thought the same way there is no version of a plan where I trust someone in government (or not in government) to decide what mail has value to me. This seems like such a dead end take. Yes junk mail is crappy, just like lots of other worthwhile tradeoffs when designing massive scale policy.
- furyofantares 2y ago> Does the postal service only have value to you if it delivers 100B pieces of "useful" mail a year, according to some metric of useful? No, and nothing I've said implies any agreement with the person whose nonsense you were countering. But you were countering it with more nonsense.
- ipaddr 2y agoJust because your email is 90% junk doesn't mean delivering it once a week is an acceptable tradeoff. Those are 100B items paid to be sent.
- furyofantares 2y agoYeah I said exactly that.