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I got one of these messages literally moments before seeing this article. I always mark them Delete & Report Junk. It’s been years. Why can’t authorities stop this?

Maybe because these sites are hosted outside the US ?

But to really stop this, USPS would need o buy all possible domains that start with USPS.*

That can get very expensive that to ICAN. Plus the USPS has no $ due to what Bush II put in place when he was president and the GOP refusing to undoing that change. I believe that was done to bust the union.

USPS would need o buy all possible domains that start with USPS.*

Also not possible because: subdomains

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