Because we have failed to adapt our laws sufficiently to keep up with modern networked computing realities. And it is more profitable in the short term (the short term is ending, right about now, in my opinion) to continue to not update our laws.

We are going to start to see productivity drop at some point (now) from all of the corruption and inefficiencies that are stacking up to pay for said short-term profits.

Really, you don’t want to fill out a permanent change of address form with the USPS.

They sell that information. Or license it. Or whatever they call it when they are holding booths at advertising and marketing trade shows.

You want to fill out a temporary change of address, renew it the one allowable time and then ghost USPS.

By then you should have updated your personal and business contact info with any group you care about.

USPS is one of the largest distributors of spam in the United States.

Lots of places have the ad/tracker code in paths that can't handle the error correctly. Like, they always think the object they need is there (window.google.tag or whatever).

We need to educate the Journeymen in the game to use try/catch and other methods so the hot-path don't die.

Not sure about the illegal part but, for sure a failure in test cases.