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I don’t think package handling business is down? First class mail is down which is bad for USPS, but e-commerce is up every year which is good for UPS and Fedex (though Amazon e-commerce is mostly using their own network so not really part of the equation )

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Oh you're right about that, ecommerce picked up a lot. I was thinking about documents. Well I'm wrong sometimes, I accept that. Ecommerce, didn't think of that.

And USPS still handles more in a day that either of those two do in a year.

Volume yes, though UPS and Fedex (based on a google search) both did a bit more in revenue. Something like 77B vs 84B vs 92B

> And USPS still handles more in a day that either of those two do in a year.

Volume-wise, yes. But also most of the volume handled by USPS is bulk mailers that nobody wants to receive in the first place.

I have to stop you right there, I have received spam in the mail and I am somebody and I did like receiving some of it. The California magazines...good paper, sure they're marketed to women, but get this no rapey cookie "consent" contract, like those are just disgusting I hate getting asked for consent it means I'm about to get fucked. Every single time you get asked for consent it's because you're about to get fucked. That's fine for a once-in-a-lifetime thing like a marriage contract, OK then I understand giving consent to getting fucked, by my future wife, perfectly understandable and good that there's a contract. But for clicking on a link in a forum? So that's why I liked those magazines, yeah they were trying to distort your sense of a good price by showing prices inflated by two orders of magnitude but at least they didn't target accurately. That's good, I don't want accurate targeting on advertisement aimed at me any more than I want accurate targeting on pistols aimed at me.

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