It’s not that people don’t want you to live in their backyard, they don’t want to even live in the city with you

We provide our services through 31,000 Post Offices, stations, and branches that are managed by the Postal
Service, with Mail deliveries are made to nearly 169 million city, rural and highway, and PO Box delivery points in 2023.

Annual Change From a Year ago

Year |City | PO Box | Rural & Highway Contract Route | Total Delivery Points
—–|—–|—–|——–|–|
1989| 1.17% | 0.00% | 4.43% | 1.57%
1990| -1.28% | 5.29% | 3.77% | 0.60%
1991| 1.82% | 1.68% | 6.36% | 2.65%
1992| 0.51% | 3.30% | 0.00% | 1.42%
1993| 0.76% | 1.06% | 6.84% | 1.40%
1994| 0.63% | 6.32% | 0.40% | 1.46%
1995| 0.88% | 2.97% | 4.78% | 2.00%
1996| 0.50% | -5.77% | 3.04% | 0.00%
1997| 0.74% | -8.16% | 3.69% | 0.00%
1998| 0.61% | 0.00% | 3.56% | 1.17%
1999| 0.61% | 11.11% | 3.78% | 2.78%
2000| 0.60% | -1.50% | 4.64% | 1.20%
2001| 0.60% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.37%
2002| 0.60% | 0.51% | 12.03% | 3.26%
2003| 0.48% | 0.51% | 3.95% | 1.36%
2004| 0.59% | 0.50% | 1.09% | 0.71%
2005| 0.82% | 0.00% | 3.49% | 1.41%
2006| 0.58% | 0.50% | 3.38% | 1.32%
2007| 0.70% | 0.50% | 2.76% | 1.23%
2008| 0.46% | 0.00% | 1.96% | 0.81%
2009| 0.46% | -0.50% | 1.44% | 0.60%
2010| 0.34% | 0.00% | 1.18% | 0.53%
2011| 0.34% | -0.50% | 0.93% | 0.40%
2012| 0.34% | -0.50% | 1.16% | 0.40%
2013| 0.34% | -1.51% | 1.60% | 0.53%
2014| 0.34% | -0.51% | 1.80% | 0.65%
2015| 0.56% | -0.51% | 1.55% | 0.71%
2016| 0.45% | 0.00% | 1.96% | 0.71%
2017| 0.44% | -0.52% | 1.28% | 0.77%
2018| 0.55% | 0.00% | 1.90% | 0.83%
2019| 0.55% | -0.52% | 1.86% | 0.82%
2020| 0.55% | 0.00% | 2.03% | 0.94%
2021| 0.65% | -0.52% | 2.39% | 1.05%
2022| 0.76% | 0.00% | 2.14% | 1.10%
2023| 0.64% | -0.52% | 2.29% | 1.03%

It is mostly specifically illegal to add housing to cities. The outcomes of that policy aren’t inherently “what people want”.