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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT: USPS "informed delivery"
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:23:07 -0700
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On 11/20/2024 10:50 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 2024-11-20, Don Y wrote:
>> On 11/20/2024 8:04 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
>>> The informed mail sure comes in hand to a friend of mine.  Almost every
>>> week he has to chase down his mail.  There are some similar road names
>>> in the county .
>>> About once a month my dad got some mail delivered to him that should go
>>> aout 10 miles away.  He lived on White Farm  road and the other was just
>>> White road.
>>
>> LOL.  So, they should offer a service to PROVE that they screwed up?
>>
>> I can't see how taking on an extra cost -- for a FREE SERVICE -- helps
>> an agency that is already losing money.  It has to be (IMO) a foot
>> in the door to get access to electronic document transfer (mail).
> 
> The extra cost of ... what, exactly?  A database row to send an email
> containing pictures that their automated processing system is already
> taking every day?

And it takes NO staff to set that up and keep it operational?
To ADVERTISE the service?  To document it?  To handle the inevitable
complaints from customers who aren't getting the results they
anticipated?

The agency is already losing money.  Do the above activities
cost it $100,000/yr?  $200,000?  $1,000,000?  Even if it is peanuts
in terms of their annual operating expenses, it is still a cost.
If there is no upside to their business (that translates into
a revenue stream), then it just makes their bottom line look worse!

Why don't businesses send bills/invoices via certified mail?
After all, they are going to MAIL the item, anyway.  Why not ADD
the cost of certified delivery!  (Ans:  it does nothing to
improve their bottom line and ADDS a cost)