{"id":10554,"date":"2015-04-06T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2015-04-06T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:49:39","slug":"visiting-the-mailbox-still-popular-among-many-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/04\/06\/visiting-the-mailbox-still-popular-among-many-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the mailbox still popular among many, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Reality check<\/h1>\n<h2>Visiting the mailbox still popular among many, poll finds<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-04-03T17:21:00.000Z\">USPS News &#8211; \u00a04\/3\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/04apr\/images\/news06s1.jpg\" alt=\"Gallup\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Eighty-three percent of Americans enjoy<br \/>\nreceiving packages, Gallup reports.<\/h6>\n<p>The mail moment lives.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-one percent of Americans still look forward to checking their mailbox each day, according to a Gallup poll<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/182261\/four-americans-look-forward-checking-mail.aspx\">published<\/a><\/em>\u00a0April 2.<\/p>\n<p>People 65 and older are more likely than anyone else to enjoy checking the mail, although more than a third of adults ages 18-49 also feel this way, the survey found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Although] the vast majority of Americans have email addresses and communicate electronically, the results show that checking what the letter carrier brings each day remains a positively anticipated experience for a sizable minority of the public,\u201d Gallup reported.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-three percent of Americans say they have a positive or very positive reaction when receiving packages, an increasingly important part of the Postal Service\u2019s business.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping and package volume hit 4 billion pieces last year, up from 3.1 billion pieces in 2010. USPS is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/02feb\/news06s5.htm\">investing<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in new package-sorting equipment and testing new services, including<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2013\/11nov\/news13s1.htm\">Sunday package deliveries<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also offers good news for proponents of letter writing, the subject of the new<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/04apr\/news03s1.htm\">From Me to You stamp<\/a><\/em>: Ninety-four percent of Americans say they enjoy receiving a letter from someone they know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality check Visiting the mailbox still popular among many, poll finds USPS News &#8211; \u00a04\/3\/15 Eighty-three percent of Americans enjoy receiving packages, Gallup reports. The mail moment lives. Forty-one percent of Americans still look forward to checking their mailbox each day, according to a Gallup poll\u00a0published\u00a0April 2. People 65 and older are more likely than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10556,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions\/10556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}