Because the Postal Service also provides shipping materials free for priority and express delivery, the company saves $1 more per box and 30 cents on every envelope.
One-quarter of letter volume is junk mail which, alas, is growing.Meanwhile, parcels and express delivery services have become more important: e-commerce could not function without them.
UK retailers are looking forward to a jump in online shopping this Christmas as they battle for the custom of hard-pressed shoppers with deals and express delivery offers.
Other initiatives, like offering a 40 percent discount on "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and express delivery, cost the company money, but, as Mr. Bezos saw it, helped to build customer loyalty.
In an era of celebrity worship, instant gratification and express delivery, the arrival of a new player is often accompanied by the nearly simultaneous appearance of his jersey on the racks of sporting goods stores and the backs of local fans.
Deutsche Post and the Netherlands' TNT Post, which have both been privatised, have diversified into parcels and express deliveries and are as efficient as postal services get.
At midweek, the low, rambling brown-brick facility on Roszel Road in a suburban office park off Route 1 was still closed, with delivery of first-class, priority and express mail originating from a tent on the property.
Post office: No regular delivery, express mail delivery only.
Horses crowded the streets — omnibus horses, butcher horses, bakery-cart horses, milk-delivery horses, express horses — and, lying alongside the curbs, dead and dying horses.
POST OFFICE -- No home delivery or express mail.
