# E-mail more popular than post

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/03/22/email-more-popular-post/
- Published: 2002-03-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Three hundred more e-mails were sent than letters during January 2002.
E-mail is
now more popular than the post, according to a NetValue survey. During January 2002,
550 million e-mails were sent compared to 258 million letters handled by the Royal
Mail.

People who use computers at home sent on average 12 messages and received 39 each
month.

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