Speakeasy forum: Stupid survey question

not to mention junk mail.

I figure junk mail helps keep first class down. Spam I just put in my spam filter. Others I read and look or delete.

Diana

No need to have them file something bogus with one of the credit reporting agencies.

First class mail is like the newspaper. The cost of the stamp and the paper just barely pays for the item itself. It doesn't pay for the payroll to do it. What actually pays for both is the ads.

Bulk mail comes in already bundled and sorted and bar-coded and ready to ship and goes to the carrier already sorted by address. And there is a lot of it (probably more than 3:1).

Unlike the first class mail that comes in in a jumble and has to be sorted and bar-coded and shipped out and re-sorted by the carrier.

In short - been there - done that.

Diana

I'm not surprised the quantity of first class and periodicals are going down. I know that I rarely use stamps anymore (that's why I bought the forever stamps) and I didn't renew a lot of my magazines. I am surprised about standard going down so drastically. I wonder if that is because of the increase in spam and infomercials.

I just know what I was told at the post office by the postmaster and the carriers.

I do want to say that the carriers are amazing. They know that x moved in with y and they both moved to z. They know that the snowplow toppled the mailbox so deliver the mail next door to the daughter. They know that a moved out and didn't leave a forwarding address. One time, we had just moved to Tulsa and sold our house in California. They sent the check to a totally wrong address and the post office delivered it to us about a week later. I know that they sometimes get a bad rap like delivering someone else's mail to my house with the same number and the next street over. I just walk it over to them when I walk the dog.

Diana

(including almost every executive) get mailboxes full of the stuff. 'Look and delete' can cut into such a one's day. Myself, I'm happy with the filters in Hotmail and such, so looking a two or three a day is no problem.

write the main office. That will get more attention.