As an American adult, I find your list extremely ucompelling. For the average person, that entire list probably accounts for a handful of pieces of mail per year on average. Several of those items are things I've never received by mail and several others are things I'd prefer to receive by email and immediately throw away if I do get them in the mail.
Several of those items are things I've never received by mail and several others are things I'd prefer to receive by email…
this is how government should work, we get one person’s opinion on how they operate and how they use said utility and that ought to do it - problem solved
Is there anything on this list that is so time critical that it would be hurt by postal delivery being dropped to, say, twice a week? I'm not seeing anything obvious, but might see it differently.
Does any of that mean we need to lie and pretend that there's 100B pieces of useful mail being delivered? Just because there's a lot of useful mail doesn't mean there's 100B of it. That number shouldn't pass anyone's sniff test.
Does the postal service only have value to you if it delivers 100B pieces of "useful" mail a year, according to some metric of useful? Even if I somehow thought the same way there is no version of a plan where I trust someone in government (or not in government) to decide what mail has value to me. This seems like such a dead end take. Yes junk mail is crappy, just like lots of other worthwhile tradeoffs when designing massive scale policy.
I don't know if it's correct or not, but it doesn't fail my sniff test. It's an average of ~1 piece of mail per person per day. Most people probably don't get more than one piece of useful mail per week, but there are also people conducting business through the mail that might send or receive far more than that.
Clearly not an American, or an adult, or he would have needed the mail for things like:
- Receive unemployment tax statements from the state
- Life insurance forms. Especially converting a group policy into an individual policy.
- IRS notices
- Utility company refunds
- Receive insurance policy documents
- Receive notice of security breach at hospital
- Receive bills for unexpected services like ambulance and medical
- Receive license plates
- Receive vehicle registration
- Auto and homeowners insurance policy documents
- Receive checks for credits from utilities after you move
- My company got a check for $95 million in the mail from the IRS
- Reimbursement checks from insurance companies
- Certain correspondence with the I.R.S. can only be done by letter. No phone calls. No online.
- Get hurt at work? Paperwork from insurance and from the state comes in paper form, not TikTok.