Is the process of writing a letter really all that different than that of an e-mail??
Has the world turned into a mail versus email battle to the death? We have to remember that the standardized mail system was a 
key development in our early society. The idea was first coined by Benjamin Franklin. Is it simply time to cut the system down to the bare necessities and fully integrate email as the proferred method of communication? Some would argue the sentimental value of a letter is worth so much more than an email. How much more? is it worth the 32 cent stamp on the letter? People may spend the money and time to make such a message personal to you, but it is necessary? Is it wanted? Many disagree upon this question, but the common ground remains: The rationality of sending Email now outweighs writing a letter for delivery. Its fast, its easy, and, most importantly for our stingy American society, its FREE. Need I say more?
key development in our early society. The idea was first coined by Benjamin Franklin. Is it simply time to cut the system down to the bare necessities and fully integrate email as the proferred method of communication? Some would argue the sentimental value of a letter is worth so much more than an email. How much more? is it worth the 32 cent stamp on the letter? People may spend the money and time to make such a message personal to you, but it is necessary? Is it wanted? Many disagree upon this question, but the common ground remains: The rationality of sending Email now outweighs writing a letter for delivery. Its fast, its easy, and, most importantly for our stingy American society, its FREE. Need I say more?Well I will anyway. The postal service may be dying in practicality, but it will still be in business until we can send items through a fax machine. We also cannot forget the pioneering effort of the Postal Service. As people began riding ponies through the country bringing a hand-written letter from one dignitary to another, they had little idea the future they were preparing for. Their systems were implemented into a modern postal service with the blue trucks driving mail from house to house and returning mail to the Post Office. The mail carriers then had no idea that soon this would be done electronically. Now someone may write a letter and scan it, or simply type it, and send it to basically a post office, or mail server, which sorts and sends it in the right direction. What is so great about this system? No human effort invovled at all. None. All done electronically. But we can't be so ignorant and narrow-minded as to think that this is it; That we have reached the future. No Way! We must now turn our vision and thoughts to the future and wonder what we are paving the way for with the email system we are developing now. There is a future beyond now, but what is it? Does it involve an integration of the U.S. Postal Service into possibly a U.S. Postal and Internet Service?
There are many similarities physically about the USPS and Email, but what about deeper parallels? Here is a very interesting article I stumbled upon that explains that how people nowadays react and respond to Email is no different than how Mail used to be. I would recommend even a glance at this article.
My point is that change happens. Let it happen. Embrace it in fact or you will be crushed by it. See my other post ; )
1 comments:
I agree with your statement when you said the future doesn't end with e-mail. Sooner or later there will be something better or maybe not better but even less of a hassle then e-mail. I personally don't think e-mail is a hassle at all, in fact I love it! But this is America and there are many people out there who are waiting for something easier to come along.
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