Post Office Dbq

When one thinks about the post office one pictures long waits and small-white-ugly-vans. This holds value as today’s United States Postal Service continues to deteriorate and lose what made it special in the first place. For a long time now, the USPS should be restructured to meet the needs of the changing world. Although the UPSP holds dear in many people's heart, the USPS needs to be restructured because technology is the way of the future and a more modern postal service would benefit the environment.

To begin with, the Postal service should be revamped since technology has proven to be the more efficient and simpler route. The old pony express should consider getting into e-business as suggested in a national news magazine, “Give every American an email address when they're born” (Source A). Using paper mail has proved inefficient and troublesome for some, but by switching over to electronic mail people will have all their mail sorted in one place. People in society should care because technological integration is necessary for the near future and without it, society risks losing valuable time. Furthermore, a graph forms the 2009 annual report of the USPS shows that although mail volume has decreased, delivery points have increased (Source B). The increase in delivery points results in longer routes for mailmen and ultimately wastes

By depending on junk mail and advertisements, the USPS is helping cut down trees, thus hurting the environment. This is the case for Colleen Plimpton, a person bombarded by junk mail, which agrees that “Junk mailers are cutting down trees willy-nilly and that has got to stop” (Source E). Since most junk mail includes ads and flyers in bulk, by mailing such items, the USPS unknowingly harms the environment by wasting paper and fuel in transport. Society needs to realize that the human races’ sustainability depends on the state of the environment when mistreated humanity ultimately