How many of these emails were of the type "SomeJerk has tagged a photo of you on Facebook!" or "xXx-linkinpark92-xXx has responded to your comment on Youtube"?
Oh, wait, I can't filter bulk commercial mail - their fees are the USPS's bread and butter. I have to take it out of my mailbox, flip through the flyers, the envelopes that are faked out to look like some sort of official notice, the credit card offers, etc. etc. etc. and dig for the one or two items that are actually for me...and then throw the rest away.
I'm not; most of it is spam, just the sort that can't be automatically filtered, that takes much more energy to make and move around, and that eventually goes into landfills.
It actually sounds about right. It will include maillist messages as well as automated emails. Throw in the fact that mail will likely follow a power law distribution with a small number of users receiving the bulk of email and it seems plausible.
12 comments
[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 42.8 ms ] threadWow. Go USPS.
I'm sorry, but delivering 200 billion physical objects is so much more impressive than nearly any amount of electrons.
200 billion is about 650 per American. That's crazy.
Oh, wait, I can't filter bulk commercial mail - their fees are the USPS's bread and butter. I have to take it out of my mailbox, flip through the flyers, the envelopes that are faked out to look like some sort of official notice, the credit card offers, etc. etc. etc. and dig for the one or two items that are actually for me...and then throw the rest away.
A government program to shovel unwanted ads down the public's throat is not impressive.