image source; Deliver Magazine
According to the ongoing USPS Household Diary Study, only 3.9% of snailmail stream consists of personal (household-to-household) mail (including the 20 postcards, apparently). Other trivia: United States Post Office operates almost 37,000 locations throughout the country; households with $65-100K income and less than high-school education receive the most mail (3.7 pieces/week), the next group is $100K+ with college degree (3.0 pieces/week); and, surprise, the larger the household the more mail it receives.
Also, the number of personal letters people send is on decline, but still amounted to some 1,116,000,000 letters in 2007.
Wonder how this relates to spam vs. personal e-mail. Didn't realize so few letters were personal.
ReplyDeletebonnieL
Richmond, VA