pay bills and send letters in the mail? Who does this anymore...is this 1980?
I don't pay a single bill using the mail. Every one is set up using auto pay. Every revolving bill I get is paperless. I send letters sometimes...it's called email. 99% of the mail we get is junk and gets put right in the trash.
I don't like auto-pay, because I don't like being in the position of having to ask them for my money back when they over-bill me. I want to control when I pay and how much. And I like being able to read paper invoices.
I still get a couple print magazines, and send and receive birthday cards to relatives and they send them to me and my kids, and now send holiday cards every year (last year, I included a small bottle of Texas whiskey with each one).
I get a wad of coupons and other bullshit once a week. I don't know... but definitely less than 90% of what I get is junk mail.
I'm still not convinced that the USPS, a government agency
required by the US Constitution, and unlike the Pentagon,
one that operates effciently ("
In 2016, the USPS had its fifth straight annual operating loss, in the amount of $5.59 billion, of which $5.8 billion was the accrual of unpaid mandatory retiree health payments." i.e. it would have been
profitable (!!!) if it wasn't for the requirement enacted in 2006 that it pre-fund all retiree health benefits, something no other entity in America - public or private - has) is bad, and I would be better off paying UPS or Fedex $70-$100/month or over $1000 year to pay my bills, and the occasional letter or package I send. What a fucking great deal for me. And all other Americans like me.
Call me
CRAZY for not wanting to spend an extra $1200 per year to send mail that the USPS would deliver for maybe $100 total.
How selfish of me - and other Americans - to think of saving money when a private corporation could profit more. I'm also going to donate a pint of blood to UPS. Never know when they might need it.