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by DubiousPusher 1882 days ago
I'm not sure why this is such a persistent sicking point with people. The post office regularly operates with a 1-5 billion dollar loss. Both UPS and Fedex operate with a net 1-5 billion dollar profit. That represents a theoretical min-max profit difference of about 10 to 2 billion dollar difference in any given year. In a 20 trillion dollar economy it's not even a rounding error.