Monday, June 6, 2011

Federal government still depends heavily on snail mail (Washington Post)

The federal government delivers Social Security checks and processes tax
returns electronically, but its use of the old-fashioned mail systems is
soaring nonetheless, according to a new study.

Declining mail volume caused a plunge in the U.S. Postal Service?s total
revenue in recent years, but the federal government?s use of first-class mail
jumped 11 percent from 1997 to 2010, according to research by two top
officials with the Postal Regulatory Commission, which oversees the Postal
Service.

In fact, the federal government was the largest single user of the mail
system, accounting for more than 2 percent of the money spent on first-class
mail last year, the authors said. States spend about the same each year.

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