But most outside experts, the service has reported, suggest a more rapid diversion, also affecting mailings like catalogs and junk mail, reducing total volume to as few as 188 billion pieces by 2008.
At the same time e-mail reduced the amount of letters being sent.But the internet also boosted the volumes of post: while letter-writing dwindled, the number of parcels soared.
The campaign is part of Postal Service efforts to reverse its recent flagging fortunes as the economic slowdown reduces mail volume, particularly among businesses, and e-mail reduces the volume of traditional mail, particularly among consumers.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 25% of e-mail users complain the ever-increasing volume of unwanted and often offensive e-mail has reduced their overall use of e-mail, and more than half of those say the decrease is significant.
A preference system preserves the benefits of direct mail, while reducing the waste associated with unwanted mail.
Although cost containment is the main reason behind the recent development of mail order pharmacy [ 3, 9, 10], there is no empirical evidence that substitution of community pharmacy with mail order reduces overall drug expenditures.
The Postal Service's most obvious challenge has been the proliferation of e-mail, which greatly reduced demand for mail services but not the expensive infrastructure required to maintain a nationwide postal system.
Passenger planes will no longer carry cargo or mail, to reduce the risks of bombs.
(Jan . 27 points out, electronic filing of tax returns is faster than snail mail and reduces to zero the chance that some I.R.S. employee will mistransfer the data.
The pledges, released to the Daily Mail, are: reducing the deficit, cutting income tax and freezing fuel duty, backing small business to create more jobs, capping welfare and reducing immigration; and delivering the best schools.
This means that all emails that are real will be authenticated and highlighted in the mail app, reducing email fraud and impersonation.
