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Internet Usage Boosts Post Office Revenue

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forward-progress-not-always-bad dept.

setirw writes "Contrary to popular belief, the New York Times reports that Internet usage has actually boosted the USPS's revenue, instead of decreasing it. It is commonly believed that the rise of the Internet has negatively affected the Postal Service's revenue, since e-mail usage is rapidly superseding snail-mail usage. 'Six years ago, people were pointing at the Internet as the doom and gloom of the Postal Service,' said James Cochrane, manager of USPS package services. However, the widespread usage of e-commerce sites has boosted USPS revenue, since millions of packages are shipped from such sites daily."

5 of 140 comments (clear)

  1. Re:usps by Bigtall+people · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like your comment

  2. Lots by lastberserker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What would be interesting is how much less *letters* are now being sent via snail mail

    I send my bills in letters, you insensitive clod!

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    My other Beowulf cluster is... er...
  3. Re:usps by IntelitaryMilligence · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From Fort Detrick

  4. mo3 down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    aas of them all, the project is in Things I still believe their

  5. Old news by TwelveInches · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This news is so old I am confident they must have mailed it into Slashdot, otherwise it would have been posted months ago. Seriously, The Economist had an article on this phenomenon months ago.