def delivery_stats(self):
        '''
        Returns a summary of inactive emails and bounces by type.
        '''
        self._check_values()

        req = Request(
            __POSTMARK_URL__ + 'deliverystats',
            None,
            {
                'Accept': 'application/json',
                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                'X-Postmark-Server-Token': self.__api_key,
                'User-agent': self.__user_agent
            }
        )

        # Attempt send
        try:
            # print 'sending request to postmark:'
            result = urlopen(req)
            with closing(result):
                if result.code == 200:
                    return json.loads(result.read())
                else:
                    raise PMMailSendException('Return code %d: %s' % (result.code, result.msg))

        except HTTPError as err:
            return err
Returns a summary of inactive emails and bounces by type.