February 03, 2008

Postal agencies look to technology to replace business disappearing to technology

"Marty Sellers once needed about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year. Sellers, 40, now pays most of his bills online and receives financial statements electronically. Because many people around the world are like Sellers, the U.S. Postal Service and its counterparts in other countries are tapping technology to cut costs and expand into electronic services - including services designed to attract more junk mail."

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