New York City has long been a cheek-to-jowl town with cramped apartments and determined strivers. In March, the United States Post Office received 56,000 mail-forwarding requests from New York City, more than double the monthly average. Destinations for mail-forwarding requests across the country Circles are sized by the proportion of requests for that destination. He and his wife filed mail-forwarding requests in mid-March, but he said much of his mail from March never arrived. Postal ServiceBlack and Hispanic neighborhoods, including many areas where essential workers live, tended to have far fewer mail-forwarding requests.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2020 03:10 UTC