“USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation — raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug,” reads the complaint, composed on the whistleblower’s behalf by Whistleblower Aid, a non-profit legal organization.

  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I’m curious, thankfully not American and where I’m from the unsolicited junk mail is always addressed to ‘Homeowner’ or ‘resident’

    does the USPS straight up sell your name with the address or is it the same as here where it’s just addressed to no human and they are still required to deliver it?

    the system hasn’t really devolved honestly… it’s just, not used anymore so the only major thing that’s left is the junk from companies that no one wants or ever needed.

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      24 hours ago

      They get funding from ad companies to send mailers through the direct mailer system. They can “map ZIP Code(s)™ and neighborhoods—even filter by age, income, or household size1 using U.S. Census data” for advertisers even…