Morning Brew Daily - English-Speaking Nations Are Sadder Than Ever & USPS is Running Out of Cash

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

Episode 804: Neal and Toby talk about a report that ranks the happiest countries in the world where Finland ranks top (no surprise there) for the ninth year in a row, but also how social media has con...tributed to the decline of happiness in the US. Then, Amazon plans to cut about two-thirds of its packages delivered from the already-struggling USPS. Meanwhile, Uber partners with Rivian to power its self-driving fleet. Plus, Meta will be shutting down its metaverse as it dives further into AI.  Learn more at linkedin.com/MBD Join our March Madness bracket!  Mens: https://fantasy.espn.com/games/tournament-challenge-bracket-2026/group?id=4f3dc815-5efe-4a5f-ab31-1479c99af85d&joining=true Womens: https://fantasy.espn.com/tc/sharer?challengeId=278&from=espn&context=GROUP_INVITE&edition=espn-en&groupId=bf3953cf-e486-4a98-9925-9f56ef480bfa  Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠  Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:33 And I'm Toby Howell. Today, why are English-speaking countries so unhappy? Then the U.S. Postal Service is running out of cash. It's Friday, March 20th. Let's ride. Good morning, happy Friday, and welcome to the first day of spring. Get out there and go for a jog. Well, unless you're on an aircraft carrier trying to stay out of sight.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Yesterday, Lamond reported that a French naval officer exposed the location of the Charles de Gaul when he logged a 36-minute workout on Strava, alerting the public of the ship's whereabouts in the Mediterranean. Toby, this is not the first time someone's revealed the location of a sensitive location on Strava, but they never seem to learn. The allure of posting your workout on Strava is just too strong. I, for one, I'm just happy he's getting a run in, especially when you're cooped up on an aircraft carrier. Let's dive into these Strava stats.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Distance run, 4.49 miles, so this wasn't just a quick John. Moving time, 35 minutes, 58 seconds. That is good for an 8 minute per mile pace. Elevation gain, 6.6 feet. Must have been a calm day on the seas. And he burnt 535 calories. I do empathize with him, though. If you don't post it on Strava, if you don't get those kudos,
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Starting point is 00:02:37 Terms and conditions may apply. The World Happiness Report released yesterday for 2026, delivered an unhappy verdict around social media. Too much scrolling time appears to be taking a sledgehammer to young people's well-being in English-speaking countries and in Western Europe. The Happiness Report conducted each year by Oxford's Well-Being Center, Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network,
Starting point is 00:02:59 said that among under-25s in English-speaking and Western European countries, life evaluation scores have dropped by almost one point over the last decade on a scale of one to ten. They also found that teenage girls are most at risk from social media fueled unhappiness. 15-year-old girls who use social media for five hours or more a day reported a drop in life satisfaction compared to those who use it less. It's contributed to a perplexing but sustained decline in happiness for people in English-speaking countries. For the second year in a row, no English-speaking country appears in the top ten on the world's happiness report. The U.S. is 23rd. The UK dropped to 29th. Its lowest ranking ever. Australia is
Starting point is 00:03:37 15th. He used to be fourth. And Ireland 13th. So who is happy? No surprise here. Finland and the rest of the Nordics, which continued to dominate the leaderboard. Finland was the happiest country for the ninth time in the last decade, while other Nordic countries like Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were all in the top 10. Toby, what stood out to you? Thanks for asking. What's out to me is it's not social media itself as a blanket, you know, concept. It's the type of social media and the amount that you're spending on it. So there's just more nuance there. The report drew a line between algorithm-driven visual platforms, think Instagram, think TikTok, even X, versus communication first platforms, which are things like WhatsApp. They actually found a seven,
Starting point is 00:04:22 in a 17 country Latin America study. WhatsApp and Facebook were linked to higher life satisfaction because you felt closer to your community. You felt closer to your family compared to Instagram, TikTok, and X, which led to lower happiness. So there also is like, there's like a goldilocks zone of the type of social media and the amount of time that you're spending on it. If you spend under an hour a day on, you know, communication based social media, you actually are happier than a baseline person who doesn't spend time on social media. But unfortunately, the average teenager with clocking upwards of two and a half hours on social media, so not a lot of people are in that Goldilocks zone.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Yeah, and the report also says we should be watching what's happening in Australia. Australia just banned social media for anyone under the age of 16. A number of other countries and states in the United States have rallied around this particular concept of banning social media for kids under 16. So they said, we need to watch. This is a very important global experiment because we have found that social media, especially visual-based, algorithmic-driven media has led to unhappiness. so what Australia is doing is so critically important for what could happen with the rest of the world.
Starting point is 00:05:30 And then I just want to give a shout out to Costa Rica because their rise has kind of been like the sleeper story in this happiness report. They jumped from 23rd to fourth in just three years. That has never happened in the report's 14 year history. And it's the first time a Latin American country has ever cracked the top five. And the report didn't look at anything necessarily tied to policy or GDP, which, you know, drives a lot of. of feelings of happiness in a lot of countries. It's family bonds. It's social ties. It's community stability.
Starting point is 00:06:00 These things that you can't necessarily assign a number to, but clearly, you know, makes a fundamentally happier society. And I mean, the Nordics, they just continue to crush this, especially in a year with the Winter Olympics. Like, everything is coming up, Norway and Finland and Sweden. They talk about how much trust they have in society. Talk a lot about access to health care. They never sort of have to worry about that
Starting point is 00:06:22 because it is all taken care of by the government. but yeah, Finland, nine out of the last 10 years, they're so happy, and they barely have any light, and it's cold. Moving on, the U.S. Postal Service and Amazon are caught up in a relationship that makes couples on Love is Blind seem like a bastion of stability. Amazon, long, the U.S. Postal Service's biggest customer is set to take its business elsewhere, saying it wants to reduce its usage by at least two-thirds by the time its current contract with the agency ends this fall. That spells major trouble for the USBs and could cost it billions of dollars in much-needed revenue. USBs delivered more than a billion packages for Amazon last year, which is about 15% of everything sent inside the country. That consistent volume has been a major source of stability for an agency that frankly stinks at making money. Last year, USPS reported a net loss of $9 billion.
Starting point is 00:07:14 The year before, that loss was $9.5 billion. Over the past 14 years, it has lost 87. billion dollars. Postmaster General David Steiner warned this week that USPS could run out of cash in less than a year without congressional action. Steiner wants Congress to authorize price hikes pushing first class stamp prices to just under $1 up from the 78 cents today. He also wants to raise the postal services borrowing limit, reform the pension program, and have a longer lease to raise prices for its services. Neil, carrier pigeons might soon be the only method available to send out my winning inputs.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Maybe. USPS is probably too big to fail, but at the same time, it's also been set up to fail, at least in 2026. It has a government mandate to deliver to roughly 170 million addresses nationwide, regardless of cost, six days a week. And because of that, 71% of its delivery routes are financially underwater. It has lost money every single year since 2007. And mail volume is simply plummeting. Total mail volume peaked in 2000. fell nearly 50% by 2024. First class mail specifically is down 80% since 1997. So you have pressure on mail volumes. No one's sending mail anymore besides you who are sending wedding invitations and receiving a wedding invitations. At the same time, it has to deliver to these rural areas where it's extremely lost-making roots. So it's going to be in a financial pinch. This is not, if you looked at this business model and said, would you invest? Someone would look at that and say absolutely not. Let's dive into what's going on. between Amazon and the USPS because, again, this is a very symbiotic relationship.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Amazon needs someone to deliver its packages. They especially rely on the USBs in rural areas like you mentioned to do that last mile delivery. They had been talking for over a year when Amazon initially wanted to increase the amount of delivery services that they were using with the USBs. But then Amazon said the agency walked away at the last minute and opened up a bidding service where they wanted to solicit bids from other companies, maybe the Walmart of the world, and see how much they would pay the agency
Starting point is 00:09:23 to carry out this last mile delivery. That kind of blindsided Amazon, which is why they're putting out all this press saying, hey, we're we're weaning off the postal service at this point because we don't know if we're going to win the bid. We don't know if we will still have the ability to rely on them going forward. Meanwhile, the postal service is like,
Starting point is 00:09:40 we want to see what our fair market value is. We feel like the Amazon deal, though it gives us a lot of revenue, maybe we've been underpaid by this singular company. Let's see what the market is showing, run it more like a business. So just an interesting rift between two partners that do rely on each other for a lot. And you can see Postmaster General David Steiner, also cool title, Postmaster General, flipping through the playbook and seeing, okay, we have lost, however, many tens of billions of dollars over the past few years.
Starting point is 00:10:09 He told Congress this week, we're going to run out of cash within a year unless we do something. So you can see them going through and probably going through the possible options. And that was probably what they opened the bidding process with Amazon for. So they want to raise more money. Right now they have a debt limit of $15 billion. They say, we have to raise more money or this thing is not going to continue as it has been for more than the United States has existed. Or we have to raise the cost of first class stamps. Right now, there's 78 cents.
Starting point is 00:10:38 And he thinks that we have to raise them to almost a dollar, 90 to 95 cents. and he said, look, compare this with the rest of the world. Sending mail in the United States is super cheap. By comparison, France and the UK charge about $3 and $2.50 respectively for the same service. So either you've got to borrow more cut costs, which they're trying to do, or raise the first or raise the cost of stamps. That's how you can somewhat be financially valuable. It's stock of the week, dog of the week time,
Starting point is 00:11:05 the segment where Neil and I pick one stock that went all chalk in their March Madness bracket, and one stock that thought mid-majors had a chance this year. I won the pre-show game of who can do more Bulgarian split squats, so I am up first. And my stock of the week is Uber, who is pivoting hard towards self-driving. Yesterday, Uber announced plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in the EV-Maker Rivian to launch a fleet of robo-taxies over the next five years. If all the correct milestones are hit, the two companies are aiming to deploy 50,000 autonomous vehicles operating across multiple countries by 2031.
Starting point is 00:11:39 While Uber drivers are a great source for an unhinged chat at 2 a.m. coming back for the bar, CEO Dara Kastra Shahi thinks an empty front seat is, quote, one of the most critical areas of focus of the company. The market likes the partnership approach Uber is taking. The company actually sold off its self-driving arm in 2020 for proving too costly. Now it's working as the middleman between car companies and riders, hanging 10 on the robotaxy wave without danger of eating a full face of steep costs that come with developing its own tech. Uber now counts Rivian, Lucid, Stalantis, Zooks, Waymo, and even
Starting point is 00:12:13 Nvidia as autonomous vehicle partners as it spreads its bets around. Neal, the market liked this deal more for Rivian, whose stock popped over 10% on the news while Uber's was basically flat. But I'm making the executive call that Uber can also be stocked Louis because of how it's positioning itself within the self-driving race. Request granted. Yeah, Uber suddenly finds itself at the center of the self-driving universe. It is shocking for those of us, to remember how much of a disaster their initial foray was. Back in March 2018, an Uber self-driving test vehicle killed a pedestrian. It was the first time that a autonomous vehicle had killed a pedestrian.
Starting point is 00:12:49 So their project was absolutely in shambles. They were trying to make it in-house. They killed that in 2020. And now they are partnering with 25 self-driving car developers, including Waymo, who is the other leader in this race. It's just a remarkable turnaround and a repositioning by Khazer Shahi to figure out how Uber could fit into this self-driving paradigm. It looks like he found an angle.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Yeah, but people are nervous that Uber could be cut out of the self-driving, you know, pie because Waymo has partnered with Uber in some markets like Atlanta and Austin, but it's going at it alone in far more markets like Dallas, Orlando, where you just open up the Waymo app to queue a Waymo. You don't need to open up the Uber app. Another threat is AI agents. People think that eventually you'll just delete the Uber app, and if you want to call an autonomous car, you can,
Starting point is 00:13:38 tell one of your agents, hey, just get me a car. That would also cut Uber out of the circle. So even though it's taking this partnership approach, which seems smart because you're taking on less risk by not developing your own technology, eventually maybe we don't need Uber anymore because we have these other options available to us. But Kasar Sari thinks he can make Uber indispensable to the self-driving ecosystem. I'd be coming that back-end B2B platform, that mission control, that controls everything on a recent podcast on Semaphore. He said that autonomous cars need to be service, charge, repositioned, insured, financed, and washed. He said these are very, very sophisticated machines that need
Starting point is 00:14:16 lots of tender loving care. And he thinks Uber with their massive fleet already are in a great position to be that back-end service, that autonomous vehicles. Yes, Waymo's going by itself. But at the end of the day, who's going to charge these vehicles, who's going to clean them, who's going to maintenance them, Uber thinks that it can be that for self-driving. All right. We're going to take a quick break and come back. with our dog the week right after this. Today I got an ad for goat feed, and now I'm questioning everything.
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Starting point is 00:16:51 with limited support. In other words, it'll be a zombie. Meta had high hopes for the Metaverse to say the least. After all, Mark Zuckerberg even changed the company's name in 2021 from Facebook to Meta to reflect what he called technology's next frontier. Speaking that October, Zuckerberg predicted our hope is that within the next decade, the Metaverse will reach a billion people, host hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce, and support jobs for millions of creators and developers.
Starting point is 00:17:16 It has done none of that. In fact, maybe the only thing it's been good at is setting money on fire. In total, Meta's poured $73 billion into reality labs, its virtual reality division, that has never turned a profit and cost Meta billions of dollars in losses every single quarter. To lose maybe a little less money earlier this year, Meta cut more than a little bit more than 1,000 employees from its VR unit. Toby Zuckerberg's vision of the Metaverse was widely mocked, even as he touted it as the next evolution of the internet.
Starting point is 00:17:43 Turns out the haters were right. RIP. RIP, rest in pixels. Let's go back to the Metaverse peak hype cycle. McKinsey and Citi had this forecast of their own estimates of the Metaverse becoming a multi-trillion dollar platform by 2030. We're at 2026 right now. It's got a couple trillion to go.
Starting point is 00:18:04 The bet was on. Gen Z socializing in virtual worlds. Meta and Mark Zuckerberg looked at Fortnite. They looked at Roblox and said, this is where young people want to hang out. I think the issue was they just never nailed the product. The legless avatar were just always too weird. Like, you know, Horizon Worlds was never a place that you did want to spend time in.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Maybe part of the motivation, too, was just renaming the company because they wanted to distance themselves from the Facebook brand that had taken some hits then. But I think the real motivation for making this gigantic bet is that Zuck really wanted to get back at Apple basically for owning like the smartphone and, you know, charging developer fees and being held hostage by this other big tech company. They wanted their own platform, their own system that developers would come and build their own apps on, basically become the next generation iPhone. That bet did not pan out exactly as expected. Yeah, the VR, people don't want to live in virtually reality, at least not yet with the current product suite available.
Starting point is 00:19:07 The MetaQuest headset sales were down 16% year over year from 2024 to 2025. The overall industry has declined for the last three years. Apple rolled out this $3,500 Vision Pro headset a few years ago. It's scaling back production. So no company has nailed this yet. And it's very unclear going forward whether consumers want to put those goggles on and be completely immersed in a world, whether there's legs or not. And it's also not surprising that they're making the shift to kind of sunset their VR ambitions.
Starting point is 00:19:37 When they have kind of the successor already in place and selling well right now, I'm talking about artificial intelligence-enabled devices like their meta-ray band glasses. Those actually do have an audience. They are outselling traditional raybans in at some stores. So it does seem like the successor is here. So then why do you continue to spend money on a technology that people haven't resonated with? It is just, you know, Mark Zuckerberg is the face of the metaverse and the metaverse flopping, but I'm glad that you mentioned that McKinsey said it was going to be a $5 trillion
Starting point is 00:20:07 opportunity by 2030. Saigonadella, who is Microsoft CEO also at that time, said the Metaverse is here. It's not only transforming how we see the world, but how we participate in it. Microsoft did shut down its own Metaverse division in 2023 laid off its entire Metaverse team. So everyone back then, I don't know, we had to open the schools. All right, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines. Jeff Bezos is done selling you a paper towels.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Now he wants to buy the factory that makes them. The Amazon founders in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that plans to buy manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate the heck out of them, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Bezos is calling it a manufacturing transformation vehicle and it's his next big obsession. Remember, Bezos recently came out of stealth with Project Prometheus,
Starting point is 00:20:57 a startup building AI that can understand and simulate how the physical world behaves. The idea is to use his learnings from Prometheus to help automate the factories and facilities owned by the fund. By the company, insert AI and boost the margins. It is the same playbook private equity has been running for years just with robots involved now.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Neil, we've been spending the last few years watching AI eat software. Bezos is betting it's also hungry for some hardware too. Ooh, his critics were grabbing their torches and pitchforks that he wants to raise. This is one of the richest people the planet to raise $100 billion to automate human jobs and replace human jobs with robots. But obviously, he's going to spend other people's money and not his if they'll give it to him.
Starting point is 00:21:41 A lot of the older guard of Silicon Valley, as Wall Street General pointed out, is really interested in this concept of using AI on the physical world, on industrial manufacturing. Travis Kalanick, who was the Uber co-founder, recently announced what his venture is. It's called Adams. and it's a vision to transform manufacturing industries with AI, something that Bezos is also interested in Elon Musk is pivoting Tesla to be a robot company. So this particular Old Guard of Silicon Value came of age in the 2010s is really, really interested in raising tons of money to use AI on the physical world.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Up next, if anyone was looking forward to the new season of The Bachelorette coming this Sunday, Toby, looking at you, it's not going to happen anymore. In a last-minute twist, ABC pulled the upcoming season. season after video emerged of its star, Taylor Frankie Paul, attacking her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children in 2023. Paul was cast as The Bachelorette after rising to stardom on the Hulu series, the Secret Live of Mormon Wives, but controversy emerged recently after it was revealed that she was facing a domestic violence investigation from a few years ago.
Starting point is 00:22:46 Despite Paul doing the typical media rounds ahead of the season, everything changed when TMZ released the video of the altercation between her and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, on Thursday morning, causing Disney to pull the plug. In a statement from her spokesperson, Paul said that she is, quote, very grateful for ABC support as she prioritizes her family's safety and security. The statement ends with Paul saying she is currently exploring all of her options, seeking support, and preparing to own and share her story. Tough first week on the job for new Disney CEO, Josh Diomaro,
Starting point is 00:23:15 who took over for Bob Eager literally on Wednesday of this week. The stock is already down 10% year-to-date, and now he has a major crisis for, one of ABC's biggest brand. ABC is looking at tens of millions of dollars in losses if it can't find a way to save the Batsarette. So good luck, Josh. Finally, the Dune 3 trailer dropped this week, causing Toby and all the other Lisan
Starting point is 00:23:39 Al-Gaiib fans to break out in a cold sweat. But so did movie theater owners who began to confront a serious dilemma. Dune 3 and Avengers Doomsday, two of the most potentially lucrative films coming out this year, are slated to be released on the exact same day, December 18th. It's like the nightmare version of Barbenheimer. While Barbie and Oppenheimer were released on the same day in 2023, their audiences didn't have much overlap. These two movies do skewed heavily male.
Starting point is 00:24:06 The concern is that they'd cannibalize each other and lead to fewer ticket sales overall, a brutal outcome when theaters are fighting for every audience member they can get. As one movie rep told the Hollywood reporter, someone's got to move. Someone's got to move, but also the IMAX screens is a big issue here because Dune secured basically every iMac screen for that weekend because that movie was filmed on iMac's cameras it generally you know has catered more to like the cinematography crowd with just its big views and vistas Avengers doomsday is going to have a lot less of those very lucrative big screen formats but Disney's position is like hey look at what happened with barbie like uh they didn't have the
Starting point is 00:24:47 Oppenheimer treatment in the large scale but that movie made one point four seven billion dollars globally it actually outgrossed Oppenheimer, so maybe IMAX isn't as big of a draw in this particular case. Obviously, you have to combine the two names and make a portmanteau of Dune and Doomsday. And luckily, the film stars already did it for us. If Doomsday star Robert Downey Jr. and Timothy Salome, the star of Dune, were at an event in January and Downey joked. We both have films opening on December 18th, and we decided to coin it. We're thinking Doones Day. we'll see if we're still friends by then.
Starting point is 00:25:23 That seems pretty on the list. Well, yeah, I had not even thought about it before five seconds ago, and that was the first thing that came to money. But if you had to move one, which one would you move? I mean, it feels like Disney, because, again, I think the I-Mass thing is an issue, even though I just said it's not a big issue. That's kind of Disney coping, I think, because you just make way more money from these big screen formats.
Starting point is 00:25:43 It feels like a bigger event when you go to an IMAX theater. So if I was Disney, I would be the one to Buds, especially because I was second to this weekend. I thought we were just going to say, Avengers has to move because I'm way looking forward to Dune 3. Yeah, I probably am. That trailer is insane. Everyone should go watch it. And go down the rabbit hole of the cameras used to film it because, like, some of them are IMAX cameras.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Some of them are using real film. Some of them are digital. Like the desert scenes are in digital to make them look like more intense. I'm not like a huge film buff. But I do encourage you to look how, you know, the director use different moods and lightings to capture like different parts of the entire trailer. Meanwhile, we're both seeing Project Hail Mary this weekend, which is just. going to be sick. Ryan Gosling in space. And finally, I cannot wait to park myself in front of
Starting point is 00:26:25 10 TVs later today with the women's college basketball tournament tipping off in the men's event entering its second day. Toby, how are your 15 brackets looking so far? So I admired in 181st place in our MBD group bracket right where you want to be after the first day. Wisconsin losing that one hurt. St. Mary's losing that one hurt, but nailed VCU, nailed Texas. And we can only go up from here. Looking forward, though, to the tea supremacy game later today. So Mitch Goldich posted on X. The biggest game of the first round is on Friday when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy. He's talking about the one-seat Arizona taking on Long Island, the 16th C. That is at 1.35 p.m. this afternoon, Easter time. So tune in if you like tea.
Starting point is 00:27:14 135 p.m. I'm probably going to be drinking in Arizona instead of a Long Island. I hope so. to ice tea and that's probably how it's going to shake out with Arizona as the one seat. All right, that is all the time we have. Thanks so much for starting your morning with us. Have a wonderful Friday and an even better weekend. If you like to reach us, send an email to Morning Brew Daily at Morningbrew.com or DM us on Instagram at MB Daily Show. Let's roll the credits.
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