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> For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year. What percentage of those are things people wanted or needed? The USPS is a valuabl
by imgabe 2y ago
> For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year.
What percentage of those are things people wanted or needed?
The USPS is a valuable service, but it is largely funded by spam. 99% of mail goes directly into the trash.
- steego 2y agoYour claim doesn't seem to reflect the reality. Marketing mail only accounts for 19% of total revenue. Shipping and packages account for 41% and First-Class mail is about 32%. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2024/1114-usps-reports-fiscal-year-2024-results.htm https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2024/1114-... Feel free to reply with your sources.
- imgabe 2y agoThe source is called open your mailbox and look at what’s in there. There is a massive industry designing, printing, shipping around pieces of paper that just get thrown away for no purpose. Some of them are outright scams (“Important Information! Open Immediately!” and it’s just an ad). This is tremendously wasteful.
- blitzar 2y agoWhen a individual or a company is not free to pay to post anything they please I am concerned that Americans are retreating from freedom.
- Breza 2y agoNow I'm imagining someone mailing postcards to a dozen friends every month saying "We live in a totalitarian dictatorship!" Once the postcards stop appearing, you know you're on the way to the message becoming true.
- steego 2y ago[flagged]
- xav0989 2y agoParcels are not mail. Parcels are the boxes of stuff that people order. While spam funds a lot of the postal service, it allows it to price mail lower than the true cost of delivering mail across the country.
- kranke155 2y agoThere are ways to reduce spam that don’t go through destroying an essential service.