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BOSTON (MainStreet) -- The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble.
With more people sending email and texts instead of letters and cards, and more bills being paid electronically as well, there's been a 20% drop in the volume of mail between 2006's record (213 billion pieces of mail processed) and last year (177 billion, according to Dennis Tarmey, a service spokesman).
Expectations that delivery from online retailers such as Amazon would make up for the trend haven't been met, and Netflix didn't help things with its 60% price increase and subsequent loss of hundreds of thousands of subscribers this quarter, only 2% less among those who only stream video and a whopping 27% less of those getting discs delivered.
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