Comments on: Snail mail: do I hear a shell crunching? http://www.wordyard.com/2007/05/14/snail-mail/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:07:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dean Collins http://www.wordyard.com/2007/05/14/snail-mail/#comment-659 Dean Collins Fri, 18 May 2007 19:12:00 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1286#comment-659 Are you kidding? ecommerce is driving up delivery volumes faster than any other single event. Lol, my mailman/ups/fedex/doorman etc would beg to differ, at least for our household anyway. Cheers, Dean www.collins.net.pr/blog Are you kidding? ecommerce is driving up delivery volumes faster than any other single event.

Lol, my mailman/ups/fedex/doorman etc would beg to differ, at least for our household anyway.

Cheers,
Dean
http://www.collins.net.pr/blog

]]> By: Michael Durnack http://www.wordyard.com/2007/05/14/snail-mail/#comment-658 Michael Durnack Tue, 15 May 2007 01:32:49 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1286#comment-658 While I won't disagree with you about the decreased usage of the Postal Service for certain services, you should look who is standing in line every day at the Post Office. People who sell everything and anything on Ebay. Those people use it because it's convenient, cost effective compared to the parcel carriers whose main conduit of business remains big online and catalog sellers and bulk business shippers. They have those small outlets and pickup locations, but everyone knows where a Post Office is. Many have not noticed that phising and identity theft all but destroyed the email business for banks. By federal laws they must still place statements in the mail if you do not opt for online services. Many bank customers are so afraid of identity theft they stick with the statements and other financial information via traditional mail. Unfortunately the wrong mindset because receiving those items in the mail actually adds to identity theft, but reality nonetheless. And why do the credit card companies still send millions of credit card offers through the mail? Because it works. Identity theft fodder once again, but the gains far outweigh the losses. While I won’t disagree with you about the decreased usage of the Postal Service for certain services, you should look who is standing in line every day at the Post Office. People who sell everything and anything on Ebay. Those people use it because it’s convenient, cost effective compared to the parcel carriers whose main conduit of business remains big online and catalog sellers and bulk business shippers. They have those small outlets and pickup locations, but everyone knows where a Post Office is.

Many have not noticed that phising and identity theft all but destroyed the email business for banks. By federal laws they must still place statements in the mail if you do not opt for online services. Many bank customers are so afraid of identity theft they stick with the statements and other financial information via traditional mail. Unfortunately the wrong mindset because receiving those items in the mail actually adds to identity theft, but reality nonetheless.

And why do the credit card companies still send millions of credit card offers through the mail? Because it works. Identity theft fodder once again, but the gains far outweigh the losses.

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