is the post office doomed to failure?
i haven't sent a paper letter in years because everyone and their grandparents have gotten their hands on skype or e-mail.
i fear the old ways will die. i dont know why i do, but i find it sad.
I haven't received an email from an actual human being for a decade.
old ways are old
>>2
oh and you've received paper mail from an actual human being?
>>4
No and even robots are sending less and less snail mail.
>>2
I still write emails, most recently I just sent some errors to the author of an open textbook. I even got a reply in less than a day!
If you want to receive hand-typed emails, you have to give people a reason to write to you.
>>6
OP is probably a zoomer who never received a handwritten love letter when he was a teenager. Like all zoomers he worships technologies that died long before he was born like paper mail, audio tapes, writing machines, IRC, dial-up BBSes, 4chan textboards, CRT screens, matrix printers and so on.
>>7
op here
nah, email is better than mail and way fucking cheaper. i hated sending mail, i just feel bad for the people who work at the post office
There's magic in the mail.
I bought a fountain pen recently. I have yet to use it.
Mass surveillance is not possible on snail mail in the same way it is for email. It's time to return to tradition, and start mailing letters to your loved ones and business associates.
>>11
how can you be so sure? if they got shit to read the outside of letters what's saying there's not another box that reads the entire message?
or, if the volume of actual human-made mail and not just form letter spam is low enough, there might just be a human reading the letter, because anyone actually posting something is clearly suspect in the same way people who use cash are suspicious.
Real privacy is sending all your mail as fake xmas cards. Chrismastime is probably the busiest the PO is all year, since a lot of people still write cards for tradition's sake around that time. What are the chances that anyone who isn't meant to notices the microprint in the margins of your cheery holiday cards?
>>13
even 15 years ago they were using OCR on the obverse and reverse of envelopes and saving the pictures.
https://youtu.be/bB7dhE_TW9g?t=65
having a tangible letter can make its words feel much more genuine.
attach sd cards to your letters.
The post office is in the constitution. We'd need a civil war or a consititutional convention for that to go away.