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Mail use has been changing over the past decade as businesses and consumers have moved to electronic communication and payment alternatives. Mail volume decline has accelerated with the recession, particularly among major users in the advertising, financial, and housing sectors. Mail volume has typically returned after recessions (see figure), but USPS’s 5-year forecast suggests that much of the recent volume decline will not return.
[gao.gov...]
The GAO government site released a pdf format report with some startling graphs. The post office is in the same boat as newspaper publishers thanks to what is being called "new technologies", better known as email, cell phones and instant messaging.
It did always surprise me to see people delivering mail on Saturdays in the US, that is definately a luxury that needs to go. Clearly people can wait an extra day for their credit card bill or publishers clearinghouse offer.
If they want to cut costs, fire some of the bums in the sorting facility making $30/hr for stuffing envelopes into tiny little slots. Not to mention their benefits...
Email? What about all of the booming ecommerce businesses and start-ups that existed AFTER email came about?
Those parcels likely introduce greater revenues than a single letter EVER could.
This is a cry for wolf if I've ever seen it, quite disgusting. Just another excuse to raise prices!
If they want to cut costs, fire some of the bums in the sorting facility making $30/hr for stuffing envelopes into tiny little slots. Not to mention their benefits...
[edited by: phranque at 6:41 am (utc) on Aug. 6, 2009]
[edit reason] fixed quoting [/edit]
