11-03-2017, 07:41 AM
quote:Yeah, I can't back that up; it must vary locally. Assertion withdrawn.
Originally posted by leilanidude
The biggest financial burden these days for the USPS is the extinction of "flyers" which used to litter our mailboxes...
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That isn't happening on the mainland. My home there is flooded with as many as 2 dozen pieces of bulk mail a day. When the post office delivers my held mail - it comes in multiple boxes. That could be from just 2-3 weeks.
This article points out a similar issue: volume of 1st class mail. As more and more people pay bills online (and hardly anyone corresponds by snail-mails anymore), the number of envelopes delivered dwindle, but the number of mailboxes serviced remains the same.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/us/pos...arter.html
My father was a "carrier", so maybe I have a soft spot for the USPS. People love to kick the USPS around, but as far as government/socialist type entities go, you could do a lot worse. You see mailmen in their trucks driving around as fast as they safely can; it's not like they spend any time goofing off. For as little as 49 cents buys anymore, I think it's kind of a miracle that it gets an envelope delivered to a specific address thousands of miles away in a few days.