According to the USPS Household Diary Study, In 2008, U.S. households received 148.6 billion pieces of mail, and sent 21.3 billion. Mail sent or received by households constituted 81% of total domestic mail in FY 2008. 56% of the mail households received was sent Standard Mail. Only 4% of household mail, and about 3% of total mail, was sent between households; the rest was sent between households and non-households.
Advertising mail represented 63% of all mail received by households in 2008. 84% of all advertising mail received by households is Standard Mail (83 billion pieces). The remainder consists of First-Class Mail; either stand-alone advertising (8.3 billion pieces), or secondary advertising that is sent along with other matter (8.2 billion pieces). Over time, the data show a decline in the percentage of First-Class advertising mail.
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