This is why you posts are so inane. If the NYT mails 100 copies a day; and the subsidy is $2 per copy mailed then the cost to the USPS would be less than a million dollars a year. Of course it matters if you are whining about it.
But you don't really know, so you just come out with liberal like assertions that it is "common knowledge." (But not so common that you could answer my simple question! And after you're done answering that question, maybe you could tell me why my Post Office is now open fewer hours than my Bank!)
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I think your real question is would the NYT distort the record even though they only manage to steal $1 million a year?
Well, what do you think? Do you think the people at the NYT are honest? I don't. Maybe you do. Maybe you drive a mob owned newspaper/magazine delivery truck in Manhattan or something? Frankly, I don't know and I don't care but I have observed over the years that NO MATTER HOW SLIGHT THE SUBSIDY the MSM wants their piece.
I have to ask why you want to protect the NYT ~ like this is FreeRepublic ~ our purpose is NOT to defend the NYT.