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Standard mail volume increased 3.6% in part because of election mailings. .
The Postal Service oversees the entire value chain for standard mail: mailboxes, offices, sorting facilities, trucks, planes and mail carriers.
Neither junk mail — bizarrely called "standard mail" in postal jargon — nor parcels have been able to pick up the slack.
There is no standard mail delivery here in this community of about 1,500 people, hence the absence of mailboxes.
The volume of standard mail -- formerly called third-class mail -- is down about 2percentthis yearas, as is first-class mail, Mr. Speakes said.
There were 9.3 billion pounds of "standard mail" — the low-cost postage category available to mass advertisers — but only 3.7 billion of first-class mail.
In some instances this is inevitable — it's hard to deliver e-mail without knowing the destination, after all — but in many cases it's a result of the drive to stay compatible with regular e-mail, since encrypting the sending e-mail address and subject line would pose awkward problems for users who prefer to view their e-mail with standard mail programs.
Faced with multibillion-dollar losses and significant declines in first-class mail, the post office is cutting deals with businesses and direct mail marketers to increase the number of sales pitches they send by standard mail, the official term the agency uses for what is less kindly referred to as junk mail.
Over all, the Postal Service reported operating revenues of $16.3 billion in the second quarter, an increase of $121 million, or 0.7 percent, which it attributed to strong growth in e-commerce deliveries and a small increase in standard mail, also known as junk mail.
A. Lee Fritschler, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a former chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, says our Postal Service should be viewed not as a communications medium but as a broadcasting medium, spraying identical messages, in the form of "standard" mail, far and wide.
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