Internet injecting new life into the US Postal Service

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Internet injecting new life into the US Postal Service

08-02-2006, 08:52 AM,

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Internet injecting new life into the US Postal Service

Quote:At a recent conference that attracted 15,000 eBay fanatics to Las Vegas, the main sponsor was a big advocate of online shopping: none other than the United States Postal Service...

As people send e-mail and e-cards instead of handwritten letters and greetings, as they pay more bills online and file tax returns electronically, the Postal Service has started to seem like a drab and tired reminder of the old way of doing things.

Yet the Internet is actually injecting new life and a sorely needed source of revenue into the Postal Service. And it is happening with packages millions of them shipped every day, in a journey that starts with a few mouse clicks and ends a day or two or five later at a customers door...

full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/busine...al.html?hp&ex=1154491200&en=5c92e9ffac088a0b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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