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McCoy
@chrisamccoy
It's effectively the privatization of public services so realistically not politically feasible but could work with USPS. My grandpa mostly raised me. He was a delivery man for 35+ years. I have a special place in my heart for the USPS but the institution needs an upgrade.
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Tay 🦊💙
@tayvano_
From "user" perspective, yeah, amazon the fuck outta everything. I just got groceries delivered for free, competitive prices, <24 hours. But from world perspective, thats a lot of people not really being taken care of. If theres one thing the govt is good at is giving cushy jobs.
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McCoy
@chrisamccoy
Raising the prices should solve most things including spam. Only way to do this without a massive public outcry is a version of Prime.
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Tay 🦊💙
@tayvano_
What's the end goal though? To get people to send/receive more mail? Or less? Or eliminate spam? Or have a bare minimum system that can be used when it needs to be used but doesnt try to increase usage?
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
Goal for me would be less receiving, which does cost me in the form of time and attention on filtering. Right now it's 100% spam BUT once or twice a year the government or some laggard sends me something. So, I have to monitor my spam folder as if it's my inbox. 👍 bare min
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Tay 🦊💙
@tayvano_
Then just get rid of Spam as a Service. The immediate cost increase is 2x for them, none for no one else. They also have add'l cost of mailing, harvesting addresses, etc. Will result in them narrowing list to only higher qual leads = less mail.
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Tay 🦊💙
@tayvano_
Then wait. See what happens. It may be that some residential routes are like...nothing. No mail. Then give folks a fucking $5 giftcard for opting in to weekly mail service. Give bill mailers a writeoff for reducing # of mail pieces year over year. Wait. See what happens. Repeat.
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