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The internet gave us email, which almost made the USPS extraneous. But then the internet gave us online commerce, which has made the USPS even more necessary.

2 hours ago by 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 to c/showerthoughts

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Archangel1313 5 points an hour ago

Then Capitalism gave us delivery services, and the US government made the USPS bankrupt and obsolete.

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hogmomma 4 points 41 minutes ago

Email affected the USPS far less than people think it did.

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nieceandtows 4 points an hour ago

I bet actual personal letters are less than 1% of what USPS delivers these days

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gandalf_der_13te 3 points 25 minutes ago

fun fact: street vehicles are still being used to transport data around. for large amounts of data, it's faster and cheaper to write it on a disk, then ship the disk, instead of transporting it over the internet.

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Endymion_Mallorn 2 points 13 minutes ago

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Ford Taurus full of tapes screaming down the Jersey Turnpike.

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Flax_vert 1 point 14 minutes ago

I remember someone put a Micro SD card on a pigeon and sent it. Was faster.

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gandalf_der_13te 1 point 11 minutes ago

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Lost_My_Mind 3 points an hour ago

A mail straight from my living room to your living room, delivered instantly??? That'll never work! Some kind of electronic mail??? The post office won't stand for it!

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db2 3 points an hour ago

Email was never a threat to mailed letters or magazines. It was some nonsense thunked up by the same caliber of technophobe that called it the webbernet and thought it really was just a series of tubes.

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betterdeadthanreddit 3 points 29 minutes ago

series of tubes

Without those tech-illiterate morons, we wouldn't have works of art like this though so it's not all bad.

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