As e-mail replaces snail mail, Postal Service goes third class. (US Postal Service strategy to recoup losses resulting from electronic mail use)

From: Insight on the News | Date: September 15, 1997| Author: Kline, Alan | Copyright information

The US Postal Service has been losing first class mail volume because of increasing use of telecommunication, particularly email and faxes. To regain customers, the agency plans to offer volume discounts to junk mailers. Postal executives are lobbying for legislation authorizing such discounts.

The Postal Service is losing money as more Americans communicate by E-mail and fax machine. But the quasi-government agency has a plan -- regain customers by offering volume discounts to j...

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