
Junk Mail
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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The Post Office Was Privatized
I didn't realize that the post office was privatized. I i thought, no, us. Yes, it's united states. Got to be government. And they, and when they did this, they immediately panicked about it,. They made it an independent corporation. The postmaster general is still presidentially chosen, but now is not in the cabinet, and is kind of quasi private. By 19 85, 15 years from now, you need to start turning a profit. In 19 74 alone, they lost half a billion dollars. In 19 75, they lost a full billion dollars. So it basely created a perfect situationf the postal service to lose a lot of money right away
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