{"id":2602,"date":"2013-02-11T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:09:04","slug":"is-e-mail-killing-the-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/is-e-mail-killing-the-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Is e-mail killing the post office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2603\">The United States Postal Service (the national mail delivery system in America) announced last week that stating in August 2013 they will no longer deliver mail to people\u2019s houses on Saturday.\u00a0 They will continue to deliver mail to homes and businesses Mondays\u2014Fridays, just not on Saturdays.\u00a0 This is a big change in the United States.\u00a0 Mail in America has been delivered to homes Monday\u2014Saturday since 1863!\u00a0 So, why is the United States Postal Service changing their delivery system?\u00a0 The reason is money.\u00a0 Take a look at this brief video that gives an overview of this change and why it is occurring.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No More Saturday Mail: US Postal Service to End Saturday Mail Delivery\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9X17jB-ySzU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The US Postal Service has been losing money for years.\u00a0 The reason for this is that people are sending fewer letters, which means less income for the post office. But why are people sending fewer letters, don\u2019t we all still have to communicate?\u00a0 Of course, but that is what e-mail is for!<\/p>\n<p>Think about it, when was the last time you sent a letter?\u00a0 Now, think about the last time you sent an email?\u00a0 How many emails did you send just yesterday?\u00a0 The postal service can\u2019t compete with e-mails, which are essentially free.\u00a0 Nowadays people pay bills on line, send messages online, sign contracts online, e-mail documents online\u2026all of this used to be done by mail and each time these items were sent through the mail someone had to buy a stamp, which helped to pay for the postal service.\u00a0 The price of stamps in the United States has been going up for years.\u00a0 A letter stamp in America now costs 44 cents \u2013 almost half a dollar. But even though the price of stamps has gone up a great deal in the last 10 years, the United States Postal Service is now 15 billion dollars of debt.\u00a0 One way they are trying to eliminate costs and reduce debt is by eliminating Saturday home mail delivery.\u00a0 By discontinuing Saturday mail delivery the postal service will save $2 billion ($2,000,000,000) a year.\u00a0 This may not solve all their problems, considering how much people use e-mail and how much they will increasingly do so over the years, but it is a small step to reduce costs.\u00a0 We could all also help out by sending more cards!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if postal systems in other countries are having similar problems?\u00a0 Is your postal system also suffering because of the innovation of e-mail and the extent to which people now use electronic communications? Do you get Saturday mail delivery where you live? Please share your thoughts on this in the comments area below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2013\/02\/5554191162_87110232f2-350x229.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"Pony Express Stamp vis Flickr by William Fine Stationary\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2013\/02\/5554191162_87110232f2-350x229.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2013\/02\/5554191162_87110232f2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>The United States Postal Service (the national mail delivery system in America) announced last week that stating in August 2013 they will no longer deliver mail to people\u2019s houses on Saturday.\u00a0 They will continue to deliver mail to homes and businesses Mondays\u2014Fridays, just not on Saturdays.\u00a0 This is a big change in the United States.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/is-e-mail-killing-the-post-office\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":2603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[273746,176,273747,273744,273745,273743],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-lettter","tag-mail","tag-stamp","tag-united-states-postal-service","tag-us-mail","tag-usps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}