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What are you talking about? There is a volume column right in the chart. It shows that for every piece of first class mail there is roughly 1.5 pieces of marketing mail

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Fair point - I was responding to the comment that USPS was / wasn't a spam delivery service. The perception is that (even through revenue is relatively low) the USPS does spam.

And with EDDM you cannot get out of this spam blast.

in the interest of clarity: some marketers also use first class mail so there is some marketing mixed in with the first-class mail numbers.

https://www.mw-direct.com/blog/posts/first-class-mail-vs-sta...

Even marketing mail sent through first class that's presorted will only get you about 30 letters for $15 at $0.46 per letter [0], so still not sure what the original author is talking about regarding 'hundreds'.

[0] https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm

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