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USPS loosing business to email [CNN]




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>                U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LOSING BUSINESS TO COMPUTERS
>                                        
>      e-mail vs. snail mail January 12, 1998
>      Web posted at: 3:25 p.m. EST (2025 GMT)
>      
>      NEW YORK (CNN) -- The U.S. Postal Service is facing stiff
>      competition from computers, according to an article in the January
>      19 issue of Time Magazine.
>      
>      Electronic mail could replace 25 percent of conventional mail, or
>      "snail mail," by the year 2000, the article said.
>      
>      The Postal Service lags behind Federal Express and United Parcel
>      Service in shipping packages. The latter already moves 80 percent of
>      the country's packages, according to the article.

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