It's especially a problem for them because email is replacing a lot of Express Mail, Fedex, and similar higher-priced services, so profits get hit harder. The phone companies are having the same problem - while voice over the Internet isn't making much of a dent, expensive international calling has a lot of fax traffic that's easy to turn into email. And the Web is replacing a lot of 800-number calling for information services from companies, which are also a higher-profit part of the business. At 07:33 PM 1/12/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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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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