As mail volume increased, the Postal Service asked charitable organizations and corporations to help them meet the need.
U.S. postal service mail volume, fell to 168 billion pieces in 2011 from the record 213 billion in 2006.
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The mail agency has seen other structural problems in declining mail volume, but has seen growth in it shipping services, up 9% in 2012.
Indeed, the USPS projects that mail volume is in permanent decline.
Charges taken in connection to a mandate to prefund retiree health care drove the loss in the latest quarter, but declining first-class and advertising mail volume were a drag on revenue.
What might be less obvious is that it has been asking for permission to do that since 2009, during which time total mail volume has fallen more than 5% and First-Class volume has drop by more than 12%.
Royal Mail said the recruitment drive was not about bringing in workers to do the work of striking staff, but to ensure there were enough staff to clear any backlogs between walkouts, as well as tackle the seasonal increase in mail volume.
With one or two exceptions that do not stick it to taxpayers, the other prominent postal reform bills also count on transfers from taxpayers to the USPS. Some contain adjustments that would reduce costs, such as shortening mail delivery to five days a week, but those proposed changes are only band aids given the dim prospects for mail volume.
Around 60% receive 10 or fewer messages on an average day, with nearly half saying that the volume of mail they receive has stayed the same over the past year.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 25% of e-mail users complain the ever-increasing volume of unwanted and often offensive e-mail has reduced their overall use of e-mail, and more than half of those say the decrease is significant.
The volume of other personal mail, meanwhile, has fallen by a third in five years.
Managing Director John Beaumont, says the company's ability to handle that volume of e-mail packages is partly because of the unique qualities of the city.
Meanwhile, police said, Mr. Holmes had bought thousands of rounds of ammunition via the Internet and received "high-volume" deliveries by mail to his home and school, for what authorities described as an arsenal of weapons and explosives.
Over the past year, the volume of spam e-mail from Web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo!
Hunt told lawmakers he had not seen the volume or tone of the e-mail communications with Murdoch's representatives before they were revealed to the inquiry.
Far more common--but still damaging--are the high-volume crime spikes, spam e-mail distribution and "phishing, " a pernicious technique for stealing credit-card information. (For more on online scams, check out "Where The Scammers Are".) The carnage is hard to pin down in dollar terms, but Marcus Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security, says it's "billions upon billions"--far more than all "major" hacking incidents combined.
According to another report by Accenture research, from 2008 - 2009 Poste Italiane registered a 9.9% drop in its postal product volume in response to the increasing digitalization of mail.
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E-mail and other communications software naturally lend themselves to hypergrowth at large volume, says Steve Jurvetson, the venture capitalist who backed Hotmail.
But while innovations like e-mail, video chatting, instant messaging, Twitter and Second Life have increased the volume of Internet chatter, they haven't necessarily made long-distance relationships any more successful, Guldner says.
Britain retains the Royal Mail's monopoly on the last-mile delivery for daily mail volumes under 4, 000 items (Express Dairies got its delivery licence because its volume is above the monopoly threshold).
The main reason behind the decrease in spam volume is the overall heightened level of anti-spam protection, says the Moscow based junk mail and cyber crime fighting Kaspersky Lab.
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