How The Email Disrupted Snail Mail

In 1999, Andrew Leonard wrote the article on “We’ve Got Mail. Always”. The author’s main purpose of writing is to explain to internet users, the positive and negative effects of email and other relatively new forms of online communication. The author used different examples, stories and statistics to support the main ideas.

Before the 1700s, the only way to send letters in the colonies was to entrust a letter or package to a person going in that general direction. By 1692, British postal systems began emerging in the colonies (Colonial). Through systematic delivery messages were transported between people across the colonies. This postal system was beneficial to both British and Americans. Altogether, these systems were a prime method of transporting messages when colonists began rebelling against the british.

Today people communicate through text and email and think nothing about it because they can get a reply right away. Back in the 1800’s people had to wait for up to, months to get a reply from someone. “The mail was delivered by either stagecoach or by boat and it would take up to 21 days to get a letter to someone” (Pony Express). In the 1860’s a group of men invented a faster mail delivery service called the Pony Express. The Pony express transformed the ingenuity of America by the delivery of a faster mail service and the legend of the men crossing through dangerous territory.

Third, is that email s an inefficient medium for in ambiguous, complex and novel situations”.

“Many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary as e-mail and text messages are today.” Today’s generation may not be quite aware of the long journey Americans have traveled from the Postal Age up to what we now call the Information Age. As an examination of the rise of the American postal system in the middle decades of the 19th century, David M Henkin’s, The Postal Age offers up a fascinating blend of intellectual and thematic history. In his book, Henkin highlights new practices and new expectations as ordinary Americans swiftly turned something novel into something normal-into habit, into culture.

The United States Postal Service has been around since 1775. Over the years the United States Postal Service has grown and changed with America (USPS). In the Last 230 years the Postal service has evolved greatly. Mail has been delivered from foot to horseback, then to stagecoach. From stagecoach to railroad, and from railroad to Air. Now due to the advances in the internet, mail is being delivered by e-mail (Kamarck, Para 1). Many believe that the internet may very well be the down fall of the United States Postal Service.

Adding and creating contacts- Contacts allow you to send emails to people without having to write out their email address. This saves time if you contact a person regularly and stores the email address so you don’t have to remember it.

     Ease of use is another major factor in choosing what medium to use even though it can be quite costly. E-mail has the disadvantage when comparing it from this side. People who wish to send E-mail will need to know how to use a computer’s software, as well as the person receiving the E-mail. Individual computers will be needed in order to send E-mail to both parties. A computer can cost around eight hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the quality of the computer. An internet connection to send and receive E-mail costs ten to fifty dollars a month, depending on the speed of internet plan, even if the internet is used or not. The only advantage to E-mail is that no stamps are required to send a message and the price to send a message never changes. The postal system is different since the only a customer needs to know is how to address an envelope. The cost of writing a letter is by far cheaper than using email. The only items that are needed are an envelope, forty can be bought for two dollars and fifty cents, and a stamp, which costs thirty-four cents. Although the stamp may seem inexpensive, the price of a stamp is constantly rising as the postal service’s cost increases. No monthly

It is not hard to observe that new technologies are fundamentally altering the ways in which we communicate in

Mail is a system of transporting documents and small packages or even written messages such as seasonal greetings and other. The first documentation of a mail service is dated back to Egypt when the pharaohs used carriers to send their decrees of territories. Persia was the first to have a real postal system which dates to Cyrus the Great at 550 BC. They used stations (Chapar-Khaneh), the carriers (Chapars) would go from post to post swapping tired horse for a fresh horse so they could deliver that much faster.

The art of communicating in the second decade of the 21st century still involves persuasion, clarity and productivity -- the tools of delivery have shifted from a phone call or message on an answering machine to text messaging

At this point in our technological era, it would be highly rare to come across someone who has not sent or received an email let alone heard of it.

Figure 5: Fictitious representation of an employee sending and receiving a large volume of electronic communications (Fielding).

Gone are the days when business had to send out flyers to mass markets or have them put on cars in parking lots and hope for the best. Email marketing helps businesses reach their established customers as well as those who would genuinely be interested in their products. This article can help you develop an email marketing campaign that will help you reach your target.

Email is a modern form of communication, you start by typing a message, include an email address for the recipient, after you click send the computer packages the email up, stamps on a IP destination and IP source on the packet, it is then sent to your router, which will forward it to the Worldwide web, - WAN (series of interconnected devices over a massive geographical location), it then goes to the first server where it is checked and sent to the next server, where it is forwarded to the router of the receiver, the router then checks the email packets for viruses and makes sure the firewall will accept email protocols, then it is sent to the computer where it is read