How to Save the USPS: A Guide to What's Happening With Those Disappearing Mailboxes
that “for decades” collection boxes had been removed “based on mail volume received in those boxes.” She offered, “When a collection box consistently receives very small amounts of mail for months on end, it costs the Postal Service money in fuel and work hours for letter carriers to drive to the mailbox and collect the mail.” Removed boxes would then usually be reassigned to “growth areas,” or “high traffic areas such as shopping centers, business parks, grocery stores, etc.
reported that rural America, tribal lands, and those in low-income areas are served by the USPS in lieu of broadband or access to delivery options, including UPS and FedEx.author Winifred Gallagher, the fight against the USPS isn't new territory: "I would date the current crisis to the 1980s, when a very timid USPS management and Congress fatefully decided not to shift from letter mail to email," Gallagher said on"They could have given Americans digital addresses the same way they gave us our physical street addresses.
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