“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.

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    Hey friend you get spam on the internet too maybe you need to go cancel your internet service?

    No I get it there’s many benefits to being on the internet despite the spam, just like the USPS.

    Like the fact that they are required to deliver to any address in the country, whereas FedEx, UPS, etc, will decide to just cut rural routes if they aren’t profitable. Hard for the elderly to get mail order medicines if they can’t get mail.

    Hell you could even spend some time looking into the laws surrounding spam and use of the USPS to that end to understand why it’s that way, and that like most things in our nation it’s driven by lawmakers decisions not USPS policy someone just made up.

    Spoiler alert, you don’t have a government that gives any shits about privacy because business wants it that way. Because buying and selling your data is the backbone of commerce today. It’s why it’s so important to be considerate of who you give your data to. Just like I wouldn’t recommend testing the waters in scientology, once they have your details they won’t leave your alone.

    So if you want to bitch about the state of things put the blame where it belongs like so many of our problems, business and their owned legislators.

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      Hey friend you get spam on the internet too maybe you need to go cancel your internet service?

      Please show me where the block button is on my mailbox. Or maybe I can submit a sieve filter to the USPS? Is there a ublock extension I can place on my mail carrier? Or maybe I have the option to add DNS filtering to the local post office?