Going Postal

This article is long but it's fascinating: the US Postal Service is crashing economically and it's long been a disaster environmentally- the author gives ideas on how to rethink the post office. Did you know that Americans receive 55 percent of the world's total mail volume, much of it bulk mail that's been effectively subsidized by the USPS? In Switzerland, instead of delivering every letter, they scan each side in color and send the scans to the recipient, who can ask for the item to be delivered or just have it recycled. 3/4 of the mail never physically travels past the local sorting center: it's recycled there. Other tidbits await! Check it out.