The large quantity of mail delivered every day by the US postal service is about 500 million pieces.

This is a huge amount of mail. The cause could be the low price of postage fees and the fact that people are accustomed to shuffling paper and envelopes all around the country.

This is why each year billions of letters are stuffed into billions of envelopes that get mechanically hauled in postal service trucks to special sorting centers, from there off to the mail airplanes, and then into the postal trucks and finally to the local postal carriers.

The above chain of event, is suspected of being too old and totally inefficient there by creating the current cost of postage stamps.

On one hand, industry professionals ask for immediate measures to bring more efficiency in this domain which would drastically effect the cost of postage stamps.

They say there are many ways to eliminate the strain on the existing postage cost of postage stamps system, such as increasing both qualification and number of the postal workers or improving transportation technology.

The bottom line is to offer better postage services by improving the quality of the existent postage system which will result in better cost of postage stamps.

On the other hand, the costs of this system are considered too high by communication experts.

They pretend that other existing systems like email, for instance, would have greater results with smaller costs.

This is why they claim that raising the price of postage stamps will increase the cost of postage stamps, and drive customers away, causing them to get online and use the excellent web communication tools.