1.4
Billion+
First-Class mail never reaches the intended recipient each year (USPS FY2025)
$860
Million+
Wasted annually processing undeliverable mail (USPS FY2025)
$3.50
Per Piece
Average cost per misdelivered piece
4.49%
Of First-Class
Is undeliverable as addressed (USPS FY2025)
🎯 Our Year 1 Goal
When 10,000 misdelivered pieces are corrected through the Misdelivered platform:
10,000+
Mail Pieces Corrected
8,500+
Senders Notified
$75,000+
Estimated Cost Savings — labor, reshipping & materials avoided
500 kg
CO₂ Emissions Avoided
23
Trees Planted Equivalent — 500 kg ÷ ~22 kg absorbed per tree/year
1,240
Car Miles Not Driven — 500 kg CO₂ ÷ ~403 g per mile
📋 Types of Misdelivered Mail
From personal letters to critical government documents — every type of mail is affected.
✉️
Standard Envelopes
Bills, statements, personal correspondence
📊
Annual Reports
Investment fund reports, SEC filings, shareholder communications
📰
Magazines & Catalogs
High-gloss, full-color prints with significant production costs
📦
Packages & Parcels
E-commerce, subscription boxes, medical deliveries
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Government Mail
Tax documents, Social Security, Medicare notices
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Business Correspondence
Contracts, legal notices, HR documents
🌊 The Ripple Effect
When mail goes to the wrong address, everyone pays the price.
- Sender pays twice — printing + postage on mail that never arrives ($3.50+ per piece)
- Recipient left in the dark — critical bills, legal notices, and medical documents never arrive
- USPS absorbs cost — $860M+/year processing undeliverable mail (FY2025)
- Environmental waste — billions of pieces end up recycled or landfilled
- Identity risk — sensitive documents sitting in the wrong mailboxes
🌍 Environmental Impact
Misdelivered mail isn't just costly — it's wasteful.
💨
Each piece of mail produces approximately 20g of CO₂ to produce and deliver
🏭
1.4B+ First-Class pieces never reach the intended recipient annually (FY2025)
🚗
300M+ pieces destroyed as waste annually — equivalent to ~250,000 trees worth of paper (USPS FY2025 + Conservatree)
🌲
Every 1,000 Corrections ≈ 1 Tree Planted
We partner with One Tree Planted to turn every 1,000 corrected misdeliveries into a real tree in the ground.
1 tree absorbs ~22 kg of CO₂ per year · $1/tree via One Tree Planted
How Misdelivered Helps
- Recipients snap a photo → we notify the sender
- Senders save on wasted postage and printing
- Less waste, less CO₂, fewer missed communications
Sources
- USPS PostalPro — UAA (mail sent to the wrong address) Statistics, FY2025
- GrayHair Software — UAA Mail Analysis & Industry Impact, 2025
- U.S. Census Bureau — Mobility Data, 2024
- Conservatree — Trees per ton of paper (24 trees/ton, kraft process)