How regularly do you send letters through using the United States Postal Service?

[el_bryanto]

Just out of curiosity. Either business or personal.

Bryant

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	10 or more times a month
	1 (5%)
	7-9 times a month
	4 (20%)
	4-6 times a month
	4 (20%)
	2-3 time a month
	4 (20%)
	1 a month
	0 (0%)
	Less than 1 a month
	5 (25%)
	Never except Holidays and birthdays
	1 (5%)
	Never
	1 (5%)
	Can I have your address so I can send you a plea to stop posting bullshit polls?
	0 (0%)
	I like to vote!
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[Solly Mack]

1. I still write letters.

It's more personal and some people actually save the handwritten letters and cards of loved ones.

[TrogL]

2. Never. I live in Canada.

If I'm sending something to the States I use Purolator.

[el_bryanto]

3. Do they have Saturday Delivery in Canada? n/t

[TrogL]

13. Purolator and Canada Post deliver on Saturday

[AngryAmish]

4. My business - probably north of 200 a month

Every one a waste. But until people enter the 21st century I can't only email things.

[Luminous Animal]

7. FYI, email is not the end all be all...

We have found at our business that we get a better response from the snail mailed promotional pieces than we do from the emailed ones of the same promotion. (That is, we have both the physical address and email address of ALL of our customers and when we run a special, we both email and snail mail. Snail mail out performs email 2-1.

It is just to easy to block email or ask to be removed from mailing lists.

[kudzu22]

5. Not so much letters

But I'm one of the few remaining play-by-mail gamers in the wild. A dying breed we are, but we likes our mail on Saturdays!

[KG]

6. usually just one, my rent. usually only write two checks a month anymore.

[smokey nj]

8. I'm not a letter writer, but I still pay my bills through the mail.

[NCTraveler]

9. Between 4 and 6 hundred a month.

Next month will be about 16 hundred as we are sending out some advertisements. Almost all of our mailings are first class and under one ounce.

[Waltons_Mtn]

11. How much do you think your costs will increase if the Post office is allowed to be privitized?

If you have to send all of those by Fedex or UPS, lets say. How much more would it cost your business/group? Would you continue to send them out?

Just wondering.

[NCTraveler]

12. I am really not sure.

To this point I have yet to even think about that. I do feel confident that the mail system will be stable for the next couple of years. I use it so much that I can say without a doubt that it is very efficient. My mail arrives in a timely manner with very few mistakes. I really hope to not have to worry about going to UPS or FedEx. My mail carriers rock.

I probably would continue to send them out, even at a higher cost. It is necessary for my business.

[Initech]

10. I would say on average... never.

[Oilwellian]

14. There's a second half missing from your poll

How regularly do you receive letters/packages through the USPS?

[Starry Messenger]

17. Yes, it's a lot for me.

[randome]

15. About the only thing I mail is a biweekly check to my mother.

All my bills are paid electronically. All my correspondence is through email.

Republicans have shafted the USPS but it was headed for irrelevance eventually, anyways.

As for mail I get, at least 99% of it gets thrown out.

[tech3149]

16. If you live in a small rural community losing the Post Office would be like a dagger in the heart

I grew up in and am back to an old mining town in Western PA. The Post Office is as much a part of the fabric of the neighborhood as the fire halls or the churches. When I didn't pick up the mail for a few days, the postmaster called to make sure I was OK. Most people hang out and BS about this, that, and the other. Most of the members of this small community are septuagenarians or better. They don't get out much and besides the phone and friends, the Post Office is the primary means of keeping in touch with the world.

Then we can think about the world without our local Post Office. Back in the 70's I would normally get UPS deliveries right to my door. It might just have been the local driver knew the neighborhood and went to school with my very hot sister. Who knows? In the past few years especially, FedEx and UPS don't even try to find the recipient, and I think this is a contracted service, they just leave the packages at the nearest Post Office. As far as sending mail and packages it's a 10 to 20 mile drive depending on the service. That means doing a 10 minute task might take an hour or more.

Then we can get into the RFD service of the Post Office. Do you really think that the corporate model and employee valuation and retention will deliver to someone 20 miles from anything on a road that no one bothered to name?

I pay for a PO box that's more than I need because I want to support the PO and keep the same mailing address that my grandfather had.

[Jersey Devil]

18. Use mail a LOT less due to email and fax

I am old enough to remember when you would always receive a hard copy of a letter by mail a day or two after receiving a fax or email in order to confirm their receipt. No one even bothers anymore. Unless something is really important or requires an original be delivered I rarely use mail.

Also, for bills both at home and the office, I can't think of a single regular bill that I don't pay online.