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The last year that the USPS accepted a public subsidy was 1982.

They receive $0 tax dollars annually. Their annual revenue is $70b. Were it a private company, it would be in the top 50 on the Forbes 100 list.

There is no discernible taxpayer benefit to facilitating its collapse
The benefit would be to the profiteers who would then be able to access their data, which is invaluable, and in filling the "last mile" delivery void it would create.

In the 2016 elections, 24 million early votes were cast by mail, representing roughly 10% of all ballots.

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40% of those votes went to Democrats. 34.5% of those votes went to Republicans.

That's a roughly 1.2 million vote advantage for Democrats, about 40% of the total popular vote advantage.

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