Your 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-...
Feel free to reply with your sources.
The 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.
When a individual or a company is not free to pay to post anything they please I am concerned that Americans are retreating from freedom.
Now 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.
Thank you for sharing your solipsistic sampling methodology and explaining the premise of junk mail.
I'm departing our exchange enlightened.
Parcels 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.
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.