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minus-squareCPMSP@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoYou’re absolutely right they should eliminate that ridiculous provision! Absolutely bonkers. I don’t know the math and I don’t see it listed in the article, but would that alone right the ship? Whatever can be done to salvage the service - it’s a true public good. It’s like the Internet before it got mostly enshittified.
minus-squarefemtek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThis goes more in depth but does say it would be making a profit if not for that mandate that no other agency is made to. https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
You’re absolutely right they should eliminate that ridiculous provision! Absolutely bonkers.
I don’t know the math and I don’t see it listed in the article, but would that alone right the ship?
Whatever can be done to salvage the service - it’s a true public good. It’s like the Internet before it got mostly enshittified.
This goes more in depth but does say it would be making a profit if not for that mandate that no other agency is made to. https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/