[jpl]

I suspect that if it weren't for all the junk we get that we don't want, most of us would get virtually no snail mail other than maybe a couple of monthly bills.

Everyone knows that technology has rendered snail mail an obsolete 20th century relic. Massive downsizing of the USPS is inevitable.

[The4thHorseman]

“I suspect that if it weren’t for all the junk we get that we don’t want, most of us would get virtually no snail mail other than maybe a couple of monthly bills.”

You’re right on the money there. I get a ton of mail, and maybe there’s on average one piece a day that is something actually meant for me (occassional greeting cards, and the few bills I don’t get electronically).

Seems like rather than raising first-class mail postage rates, they need to raise the rates of what they charge for bulk mail (that might also help cut down on all the darn catalogs and requests for donations that clog my mailbox).