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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by alextheparrot on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:48PM (#23912199)
What are you talking about? There is a volume column right in the chart. It shows that for every piece of first class mail there is roughly 1.5 pieces of marketing mail
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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by donor20 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:09PM (#23912381)
Fair point - I was responding to the comment that USPS was / wasn't a spam delivery service. The perception is that (even through revenue is relatively low) the USPS does spam.

And with EDDM you cannot get out of this spam blast.

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by elsewhen on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:58PM (#23912280)
in the interest of clarity: some marketers also use first class mail so there is some marketing mixed in with the first-class mail numbers.

https://www.mw-direct.com/blog/posts/first-class-mail-vs-sta...

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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by alextheparrot on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:11PM (#23912393)
Even marketing mail sent through first class that's presorted will only get you about 30 letters for $15 at $0.46 per letter [0], so still not sure what the original author is talking about regarding 'hundreds'.

[0] https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm

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