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Wells Fargo Is Plotting to Privatize the Post Office (jacobin.com)

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[–] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah that went great.

One crazy outcome was that the Royal Mail's enforcement division (mall cops) were still legally real police even though their job was now to protect the company's revenue. This ended up enabling them to convict thousands of employees of theft and then railroading them through the court system after botching accounting software screwed up their books:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036