Parcels is 6-7B: https://www.pitneybowes.com/content/dam/pitneybowes/us/en/sh...
Put another way, if you kill the USPS, don’t you think that junk mail will still find a way to get to you?
Which indirectly shows the efficiency and value of the USPS. The fact that they can get stuff to people so cheaply is something nobody else can replicate.
Clearly not an American, or an adult, or he would have needed the mail for things like:
- Receive unemployment tax statements from the state
- Life insurance forms. Especially converting a group policy into an individual policy.
- IRS notices
- Utility company refunds
- Receive insurance policy documents
- Receive notice of security breach at hospital
- Receive bills for unexpected services like ambulance and medical
- Receive license plates
- Receive vehicle registration
- Auto and homeowners insurance policy documents
- Receive checks for credits from utilities after you move
- My company got a check for $95 million in the mail from the IRS
- Reimbursement checks from insurance companies
- Certain correspondence with the I.R.S. can only be done by letter. No phone calls. No online.
- Get hurt at work? Paperwork from insurance and from the state comes in paper form, not TikTok.
this is how government should work, we get one person’s opinion on how they operate and how they use said utility and that ought to do it - problem solved
>Clearly not an American, or an adult, or he would have needed the mail for things like:
is bullshit.
No, and nothing I've said implies any agreement with the person whose nonsense you were countering. But you were countering it with more nonsense.
I haven't seen any indication that it's a lie. Please post a link to the proof.
Is not a lie simply because it doesn't align with your political view.
Note that what you consider junk mail, other people may find valuable. I know someone who digs those ValPack coupons.
Someone else posted some links in this thread already. But OK here: https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2024-09/...
This must be pieces of mail per year? To me "parcel" means more like a package.
Some web searching confirms this and also says a little over half of that is marketing mail. 60B pieces of spam per year. And I don't know about you, but excluding marketing mail, I'd say about 90% of the remainder still goes directly in the bin for me. And even though I open probably less than 5% of what is sent to me, maybe less than 1%, STILL much of that could have been an email.
I don't doubt the USPS provides a whole lot of value and I don't want them to go down to 1 day per week or anything. But that 100B number looks like it includes a whole lot of negative, zero, or low value items.