text: , every one percent increase in the number of households has yielded exactly a one percent increase in all annual mail volumes and for all years in Tables 1 , 2 , and 3 ) , we can , then , divide the annual volume figures by the number of households in the respective year to obtain annual volume figures per household .
  
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  The agency has found that increases in local housing correlate to increases in mail volume per household .