What business gets more customers every year,
yet keeps losing money?
It's the U.S. Postal Service.
The agency delivers mail to 11 million more
homes, offices and other addresses than it did a decade ago — even as the
amount of mail people in the United States receive has fallen sharply. It's the U.S. Postal Service.
The number of new addresses had been rising by roughly 2 million almost every year since 1989. But that was cut in half to 1 million or less during the recession and housing crisis this decade.
With the economy improving, the constant march upward in the number of places the postman has to travel is expected to accelerate.
