Sadly the USPS stuffs your mailbox with advertisements now too. There is no opt out and they've actively discontinued working with third party services that would filter your mail for you.
By mail volume the USPS is basically a government subsidized advertising delivery service these days.
It doesn't subsidize it, such data "products" are a new revenue source for the ISPs. While I don't think it's wrong for them to want to make more money, it is wrong to alter a paid service and go directly against the best interests of their customers.
My bad, in this case I agree somewhat. Though it helps fund USPS, I'd rather see USPS be a true public service and be funded by taxes and not funky arrangements with spammers.
I can see that. I don't have much of an opinion on the ideal arrangement for USPS myself, although I do think it works fairly well at the moment and maybe we should leave well enough alone in that case. But really I just wanted to set the record straight in terms of what's actually subsidizing what.
By mail volume the USPS is basically a government subsidized advertising delivery service these days.