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USPS could save $1.5 billion with slower mail

Think snail mail is too slow? Imagine if it got slower.

The U.S. Postal Service could save about $1.5 billion a year if it relaxed its two-to-three-day delivery schedules for first-class and Priority Mail deliveries by a day, according to a new study. [more]

yeah, right, assuming slower deliveries don't cost them so much business that they lose even more money.

then again, fewer letters would speed up deliveries.

but wait! that would mean they lost revenue for nothing!

par for the course.

what a country.