Postal management's policy has been to severely degrade service, dismantle the postal network, and engage in piecemeal privatization... Management has shortened hours at neighborhood post offices, closed mail processing centers, lowered delivery standards and slowed mail delivery.
A century ago such a person could rely on slow mail or perhaps expensive telephones and telegrams.
Every morning, slow mail trains delivered early editions of newspapers that had been printed the night before in their metropolitan bases.
Write a romantic letter and/or send post cards every so often by slow mail, this will keep things fun and will show them they mean a lot to you knowing you took the time to write a letter for them.
Even if it gets through, large attachments will slow your mail to a crawl.
And lenders, over all, are slowing the flood of mail offers to a trickle with moves that would translate for the average American household into about 13 fewer pieces of credit card junk mail a year than its peak in 2005.
"The postal service should be modernizing and improving its service for the American people so it can remain relevant in the digital age, not slowing service and making mail less relevant".
They have often applied considerable technical skill in maximizing the benefits to be derived from progress in this field, particularly in originating the traveling post-office concept and apparatus enabling express trains to pick up and discharge mails without slowing.
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(Biggs posted this on our sister site, CrunchGear. In hopes of slowing the barrage of e-mails and IMs, I'm posting it here, too. -Greg).
