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Thread: U.S. Post Office's plan to increase mail used by youth

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    U.S. Post Office's plan to increase mail used by youth

    This sounds so silly to me. The post office is going to start making stamps of celebrities that young people like, in the hopes of drawing kids back to using mail.
    Is that silly or what?

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    don't think it will work.

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    I doubt it - kids don't even use email these days

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    Maybe to stamp collecting, but even I almost never mail anything, and I'm 56.

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    From the looks of it at our house, what's keeping the USPS alive is the junk mail.

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    What a total waste of effort. Since I've started paying bills online, I don't mail much either, and I'm much older than the target audience. I do still send cards though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CathyA View Post
    From the looks of it at our house, what's keeping the USPS alive is the junk mail.
    It's also strangling USPS - like Saturday delivery. USPS wants to stop it, but lobbyists in Congress say no - because the people they work for want their junk mail showing up on Saturday right before people go weekend shopping.

    Junk mail is obviously not paying the bills at USPS - but they don't have ability to set prices.

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    I wish I could automatically refuse all mail except Netflix and Amazon.

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    We still use mail for bills. I guess I don't feel comfortable paying online for some things, and our utilities don't have online payment yet.

    I use media mail a lot. I get most of my books from amazon sellers, so those come media mail. And often pass books back and forth to other homeschoolers, using media mail.

    I'm all for the PO greatly reducing delivery days, but it seems like they won't consider it.

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    I LOVE online bill pay! It saves so much time and hassle.

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