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03-26-2018, 12:44 PM
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Sage
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Quote:
Originally Posted by retiredguy123
The problem is that the advertisers are not paying enough money to cover the cost to deliver the junk. Our Government is subsidizing the cost. It has gotten to the point that almost all of our mail is junk, and the "for profit" services like UPS and FEDEX are delivering the real mail. If the USPS charged the actual cost to deliver junk mail, the junk mail would disappear.
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Actually we, the first class mail users, are heavily subsidizing the junk mail postal costs. Advertisers only pay a small portion of their actual mailing costs. They paid lobbyists to get congress to make this the way it works.
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