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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) predicts that by 2003, First-Class mail, now a $35 billion business and its top revenueproducing service, will begin an unprecedented decline because of e-mail and online billing services. Addressing this forecast, the USPS is testing a variety of e-services including one that would assign virtually everybody an e-mail address.
According to the Associated Press, the new service could notify customers by email about an incoming bill or package, which the USPS could then...