Other than a few academic journals and a couple of trade magazines, I get essentially nothing by snail mail that I actually want. Everything in my mailbox is junk mail, unsolicited credit-card applications, political crap that I don't care about, bills that are redundant because I pay them online anyway, etc. Conversely, I can barely remember the last time I had any call to mail something snail mail.
Basically, if I weren't something of a luddite when it comes to reading (I still prefer to read some things on paper), I'd have absolutely no use for the USPS at all. As it is, if they closed down tomorrow, I'm pretty sure IEEE and ACM would find another way to get my journals to me, or I'd finally bite the bullet and switch to reading that stuff exclusively in digital form as well.
What, exactly, is your point? Are you actually using anecdotal evidence to try to state generally that people don't need the mail? I certainly hope not, because I thought the level of discourse was at least a little bit higher here than that kind of absurdity. If not, it seems like you're just telling a story with no real purpose.
More than half of all physical mail is junk mail(1). This is the equivalent of your email service provider selling access to your mailbox, and delivering the spam directly to your box (guaranteeing delivery).
As I moved my bills online, and I communicate with family via dozens of online means, the usefulness of USPS has dropped to ZERO for me, it is just a physical spam location for me. Not claiming that applies to all people, but in my case it is true.
Somebody asked a question, I answered it. Who says there has to be some big "point" to it? The reader is welcome to take what he or she will from what I write. If you don't find it useful, then please move along - there's nothing here for you.
Basically, if I weren't something of a luddite when it comes to reading (I still prefer to read some things on paper), I'd have absolutely no use for the USPS at all. As it is, if they closed down tomorrow, I'm pretty sure IEEE and ACM would find another way to get my journals to me, or I'd finally bite the bullet and switch to reading that stuff exclusively in digital form as well.