USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap (techcrunch.com)
from neme@lemm.ee to privacy@lemmy.ca on 18 Jul 2024 21:47
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penquin@lemmy.kde.social on 18 Jul 2024 22:23 next collapse

Lmfao, even USPS is fucking us hard now? Our assholes are stretching too much nowadays.

sunzu@kbin.run on 18 Jul 2024 22:41 next collapse

Our tax money is used to fuck us, exhibit no. 3259867

Nougat@fedia.io on 18 Jul 2024 23:43 collapse

No, it isn't.

sunzu@kbin.run on 18 Jul 2024 23:49 collapse

so no tax money goes to post office, is it funded from stamps and delivery fees?

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Overview The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) generates nearly all of its funding—about $78.5 billion annually according to the USPS’s most recent financial report—by charging users of the mail for the costs of the services it provides. Congress, however, does provide an annual appropriation—about $50 million in FY2023—to compensate the USPS for revenue it forgoes in providing free mailing privileges to the blind and overseas voters.

FY2024 U.S. Postal Service Appropriations

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sunzu@kbin.run on 19 Jul 2024 00:18 collapse

Overview The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) generates nearly all of its funding—about $78.5 billion annually according to the USPS’s most recent financial report—by charging users of the mail for the costs of the services it provides. Congress, however, does provide an annual appropriation—about $50 million in FY2023—to compensate the USPS for revenue it forgoes in providing free mailing privileges to the blind and overseas voters.

Nougat@fedia.io on 19 Jul 2024 00:20 collapse

I'll take responsibility for misunderstanding that as "b-b-but Congress gives USPS moneeeez!"

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml on 18 Jul 2024 22:43 collapse

It was a mistake, they had tracking code on their own website they didn’t understand.

Not that it justifies it tbh, the whole “let’s collect analytics” is cancerous

sunzu@kbin.run on 18 Jul 2024 23:41 collapse

These mistakes always happen at our expense. Did not facebook get our incomes in similar way from turbotax.

At some point, people start to notice...

penquin@lemmy.kde.social on 19 Jul 2024 03:53 collapse

We are always the fucking punching bag.

thedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Jul 2024 22:41 next collapse

Oh snap

irreticent@lemmy.world on 19 Jul 2024 02:11 collapse

How meta.

thesohoriots@lemmy.world on 18 Jul 2024 22:53 next collapse

No shit, that’s why HelloFresh is sending me ads in my name a week after I moved

BossDj@lemm.ee on 19 Jul 2024 02:40 collapse

I’m not in the tech industry, but should Meta have some kind of obligation to report this to USPS? There’s no way they didn’t realize.

I realize the fine print user agreements (which I’ve noticed have become 3 to 4 separate documents these days – links to other links) exist for “a reason” but I feel like there ought to be a “mandatory to report” such a thing from the corporate end.

I don’t expect the USPS to have the same level of tech guru to combat corporate giant sneakiness