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Sadly the USPS stuffs your mailbox with advertisements now too. There is no opt out and they've actively discontinued working with third party services that wou
by ianlevesque 12y ago
Sadly the USPS stuffs your mailbox with advertisements now too. There is no opt out and they've actively discontinued working with third party services that would filter your mail for you.
By mail volume the USPS is basically a government subsidized advertising delivery service these days.
- mikeash 12y agoDoesn't the advertising subsidize the rest of the business? And as I recall they receive no government money.
- sologoub 12y agoIt doesn't subsidize it, such data "products" are a new revenue source for the ISPs. While I don't think it's wrong for them to want to make more money, it is wrong to alter a paid service and go directly against the best interests of their customers.
- mikeash 12y agoEr, we're talking about the postal service.
- sologoub 12y agoMy bad, in this case I agree somewhat. Though it helps fund USPS, I'd rather see USPS be a true public service and be funded by taxes and not funky arrangements with spammers.
- chii 12y agoor, they should be funded by charging the customers of their service with a price that is profitable.
- mikeash 12y agoI can see that. I don't have much of an opinion on the ideal arrangement for USPS myself, although I do think it works fairly well at the moment and maybe we should leave well enough alone in that case. But really I just wanted to set the record straight in terms of what's actually subsidizing what.
- JetSpiegel 12y ago"stuffing mailbox with ads" is not in the same league as "opening packages destined to you and inserting ads"