USPS

This is the back of an envelope addressed to my wife from the USPS. Inside the envelope was roughly one half of a birthday card. The roughly half of the birthday card and envelope were torn diagonally in a straight line from top to bottom. The other roughly half of the birthday card wasn't included.

It was just a birthday card--from my wife's brother who lives in Florida. He's in his mid 80s and my wife is six years younger.  Needless to say, the roughly half of the birthday card was completely unreadable. The whole birthday card and envelope had made it all the way to Virginia intact.

"The United States Postal Service handles over 202 billion pieces of mail each year."

I get it. That's a LOT of mail. Accidents happen.

My question is: How many of those 202 billion pieces of mail each year is junk mail? 

I don't know about you, but WAY more than half of our mail is junk mail. 

If junk mail is eliminated, then there'd be WAY less mail to deliver and less mail that is "inadvertently damaged".

Junk mail can be eliminated by raising the rate for junk mail to 78 cents per ounce--the current price for a first class stamp. With junk mail eliminated, more care would be given to first class mail. Not only that, citizens wouldn't have to deal with all of the junk mail that they have to dispose of. Also, with the HUGE reduction in junk mail, the price for first class mail can be reduced--a BIG WIN-WIN for all!