Governments prompt people to renew registrations or use the mail to convey notices.īut online tools, like Google Apps, mean we send fewer envelopes than we used to. Businesses promote products and services. That’s right: about half of USPS mail is ads (if only there was a way to “unsubscribe” to advertising delivered by the USPS)!Įven in an era of status updates, people still send envelopes. It’s the US Postal Service (USPS), which delivered - by volume - 80.9 billion advertising items out of 158.4 billion total items in 2013.
This network delivers tens of billions of ads each year.
There’s a nationwide network that connects nearly everyone in the United States. Andy Wolber explains how to create an envelope in Google Docs from a template, an add-on, or a Chrome app.