> So this attitude that they should just lose a bunch of money and be backstopped by the taxpayer, when mail is less critical than ever, is an entirely new idea and is aligned with business mailer lobbying interests.
Not when combined with the idea that spam mail senders should be legislated out of legality.
If USPS could set whatever price they wanted on business mailers they could completely price them out or make them pay more for it.
The problem is that there are categories of spammers willing to pay more than what the poorest regular people can afford. Much more reasonable to make junk mail illegal just like other countries already have.