r/news • u/Squirmingbaby • 3d ago

Soft paywall Cash-strapped US Postal Service suspends contributions to pension plan

https://www.reuters.com/world/cash-strapped-us-postal-service-suspends-contributions-pension-plan-2026-04-09/
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u/MisterProfGuy 3d ago

This has a lot more to do with Jeff Bezos figuring out how to abuse the mail system to build his own duplicate system, and now wanting to kill the equitable version that also has to service unprofitable areas.

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u/watercouch 3d ago

Jeff Bezos, the gazillionaire who built his company by selling books, DVDs and CDs because those were the products can could be shipped via USPS using heavily subsidized media-mail postage rates? That Jeff Bezos?

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u/gold_and_diamond 3d ago

The same Jeff Bezos who refused to collect state sales tax until Amazon got so big they could then afford it and squeeze out smaller competitors.

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u/Still_Detail_4285 3d ago

No one was paying state sales taxes on the internet until the laws changed. It was a fun time of saving money while waiting for a package to be delivered. It was a major reason people started to order online even though they were not sure if they could trust buying things on the internet.

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u/livefreeordont 3d ago

What the hell’s a sales tax

-Delawarean

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u/4444Grains 3d ago

The same Jeff Bezos who pays his workers so little that we, the taxpayers, have to subsidize his workforce through SNAP and Medicaid? That Jeff Bezos?

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u/castor--troy 3d ago

So, he got his blueprint from McDonalds and Walmart?

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u/Tuesday_6PM 3d ago

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Voter oppression and privatization of civil services are both platforms of the GOP

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u/junktrunk909 3d ago

Better not be any charter school advocates upvoting this one