I was a letter carrier for 33 years and unless it's the holiday season if a carrier has 8 parcels that day or 20 parcels that day from Amazon it most likely wont send him into overtime. He is going to all those addresses anyway to deliver mail so throwing a parcel or two into his bag wont add to his day. That part I can speak on. Im guessing that if a USPS cargo plane flies from one coast to the other it's better for it to be full anyway?
The thinking probably was that it's better to get a lowered price on a contract then not get the contract at all when in the long run it wont really cost them anything.
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