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Does any of this relate to my original question of whether or not junk mail subsidizes regular mail?



My responses are directly to the comments they were in response to. So that comment was in response to:

> So only a few types of mail generate a loss, and it is a loss of $1.7B, and advertising mail generates a profit of $5.7B, yet as a whole USPS operates at a loss of $8.5B. This doesn't leave me with much faith in their self-assessment of the profitability of specific types of mail.

Because you switched from 'is X subsidized' to 'well...if X is profitable, it must be because they cannot perform accurate accounting'.

They are both profitable categories of mail and neither are 'subsidized'. The 'subsidized categories' are those that are losing money.




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