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There has also been a pretty dramatic change in mail volume over the years. I'd rather service get subsidized than gutted, but I don't think politics are the o
by maxerickson 6y ago
There has also been a pretty dramatic change in mail volume over the years.
I'd rather service get subsidized than gutted, but I don't think politics are the only driver of change.
- slickdork 6y agoThere has been a change in volume... but it's going down. 168 billion in 2011 vs 129 billion in 2020 [1]. [1] https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/ https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/
- makomk 6y agoMore specifically, letter volume has been going down and parcel volume has been going up. Basically, there's been a huge shift in what the US Postal Service actually does, and their ability to cope with it has not been helped by - for example - the media creating partisan conspiracy theories about reducing the number of sorting machines that can physically only sort letters to rebalance their infrastructure being an evil right-wing conspiracy to destroy the postal service.