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OH REALLY???
I can put a 46 cent stamp on a letter and put it in a local mailbox here in Colorado. About three days later my sister in New Hampshire has it delivered to her door ...
UPS or Fed X can give me the same service for about $16.00.
Tell me how that is better?
While I struggle with the interwebz, my wife however can tap out an Email complete with attached photos to all my family and in mere seconds they all receive the 'letter'.
She can do some sort of electronic bill pay for our credit cards... our local bill are done EOM by driving into the county seat and 'visiting' the electric company and catching up with the nice lady at the window, computer bill in a mail slot and of course the ladies at the COOP for our feed/fuel bill, always a stop at the grocery store...
I can see businesses sending SOME correspondence by snail mail, but even that can be sent as a printable attachment. I live out in the country every day but Sunday they pay a fella good money to haul ads to me and a few others out here, I'm 8.5 miles from town, and by no means the farthest away. I drive a mile round trip to get the ads. I drive down 3 times a week, I wouldn't mind him doing the same.
When we first moved out to the country the Rural Route couldn't be extended to our house- too far from the neighbors. I was not happy. These days I really don't have a real need for the USPS, most businesses I want to know are having sales send me Email alerts.