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Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs

Posted by timothy on from the let's-get-the-doj-right-on-this-monopoly dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The United States Postal Service is seeking to implement a special postage rate for companies such as Netflix, GameFly and Blockbuster (PDF), which send DVDs to their customers and then receive them back. This proposal for special rates for two-way mailers of optical disks follows a protracted legal complaint from GameFly, which argued that Netflix was receiving special handling by the Postal Service while paying a cheaper postage rate."

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  1. Subsidised gov't monopoly by roman_mir · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mailing, shipping companies should be able to do whatever the hell they want with their postages, etc., of-course USPS is not a company, they are the government and will eventually die off as a species and the sooner the better.

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