The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.
The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
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