First established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress, the United States Postal Service is one of the oldest institutions in America. However, the city governments of San Francisco, Newark and New York recently signed on to provide paperless municipal mail through Zumbox instead of using the postal service.
Since the advent of email, mobile texting and other forms of digital communication, use of "snail mail" has become slightly inefficient and wasteful.
READ ABOUT THE DECISION AND VIEW STATS ABOUT PAPER WASTE HERE!