In a recent news article on Yahoo! Finance, the US GAO advises that the US Postal Service is in dire straits, and is likely to run out of money by September!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Post-office-cited-by-GAO-as-a-apf-1733443566.html?x=0&.v=4
Email pundits and pros have jumped on this, as with the news of postal mail declining, email marketing continues to grow quickly.
There is good reason to be excited about it, with the advent of increasingly more capable enterprise class email marketing software there is great opportunity to grow sales and share –and save the trees.