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Paper comes from tree farms. Only illegal logging operations increase deforestation.

There are lots of reasons for us to have a postal service other than receiving bills in the mail.


Like what? Literally everything can be sent over email except packages


Sure about that? Literally everything? There's not a single solitary document that might require receiving somehow other than email?

USPS provides a vital service of connecting rural people in America to both package and letter delivery. People need to get medicines, supplies, and yes, letters, and have very little access without USPS. Everything from voting to legal documents to IDs to taxes to cash and checks and much more flow through USPS, at very affordable rates.


I swear I still get paper bills for crap I turned electronic billing on years ago


I don't get it either. One would think that corporations would cut unnecessary costs by not sending paper bills at the advent of electronic communication. Is there a legal obligation to keep sending them, I wonder.




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