People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

This chapter describes the various ways in which our personal privacy is compromised by the digital explosion.

This document will serve as a guideline on the use of electronic communications and addresses major issues such as; email and cell phone usage, best practices, how we define appropriate use of email and cell phones in the workplace, the effective use of email as a business tool for internal and

To address the problem, we need to compare and contrast the modern form of the postal service: electronic mail (e-mail). Although email is favorable because it makes communication remarkably fast and you can send things for “free”, in many ways the good old letter is better. We want to identify when and how the letter is better. Even though it is free to send an email, you still need access to internet and a computer, both in which cost hundreds of dollars, opposed to a letter where you can have everything you need to send a letter under a dollar. A letter is also hard evidence, it’s harder to forge than an email, since handwriting is unique, and typing is not. Computers can have many internal errors; the computer can crash, information can be lost or leaked to someone.

E-mails, these work by the message leaving your inbox, it is then transferred to a number of servers before it reaches the other persons inbox. During this time it passes through a few servers, some of which save the email for future reference, faxes are another type of electrical message system, this works by drawing the documents through it, scanning them and saving digital images into memory. The machine dials the number, waits for acknowledgment from the fax machine on the other end then transfers the images using different frequency tones to translate varying shades of dark and light.

The United States Postal Service has existed for more than two centuries. As the people have grown into the new world of digital technology and electronic communication, the USPS continues to become more of a disservice to the American people. The USPS has still used the same rules and principles for more than two centuries, which does not intrigue any more customers. The USPS needs to be reconstructed in order to fit the needs of a changing world. As the world grows and develops into higher levels of thinking and technological advances, the USPS should grow with them, changing to become more useful to American people.

The word ‘Mail’ did refer to the written communication that passes through the messenger service or the post office. However, ‘mail’ now widely refers to ‘email’, where ‘Post’ refers to the written word on paper put in envelopes. Mail can arrive at the company office in different ways. The bulk of the mail will be delivered by the Post Office, usually in the morning to midday. Nonetheless, mail can also be delivered by hand, fax and of course by e-mail.

The issue of privacy is a big concern in the workplace. With the expanding of new technology, many employees are concern about his or, her privacy in the workplace. Employees have the right to go to work knowing that his or, her employer will not invade their privacy. The rights to privacy in the workplace only provide limited protection for workers against monitoring and breach of confidentiality. The National Work Rights Institute states, under the federal law, "the limited protection the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986 provides to employees' has been reduced because the statue has been outdated."

As young adults, teenagers are used to being the bud of the joke when it comes to technology and how soft it has made the younger generations. Almost everyone has heard the classic line, “Back in my day, we had to actually write letters when we wanted to talk to someone far away.” In an ever changing world, most children have never written a letter to a friend or family member thanks to the internet, and they probably never will. While such a fact has become accepted, it’s a harder pill to swallow for the USPS since the organization’s revenue is dependent on mail. In order to make money in a world where there is a rising dependence on technology, the USPS will have to start restructuring their business, and there are many ways to do just that.

As much as a company should not invade the rights of its employees , it has the equal responsibility of ensuring that its privacy and that of its employees are not divulged or used in any personal intent by other employees . According to Nyman (2005 , more companies are being held accountable by employees whose privacy was compromised in the workplace because of what is seen as a lack in its measures to ensure their privacy . Therefore , if employers are being held accountable for such situations , Nyman believes that they should be given enough power to protect themselves from such liabilities

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

Volunteers received an email or a mobile phone text message as soon as their paper mail has been opened, scanned and sent as an electronic image to a secure digital mailbox, to which only the intended recipient has access. The staff is bound by strict confidentiality obligations. The service had 100,000 users in 2007 and has more than 300,000 users in 2011(Post&Parcel/Itella Group, 2011). Similarly, the Swiss Post from Switzerland lets its customers choose if they want their mail delivered at home in hard copy or scanned and sent to their preferred Internet connected device. Swiss Post also allows its customers to tell them if they would rather not receive items such as junk mail. And finally, the New Zealand Post has signed a licensing deal with digital postal mail provider Zumbox. The company’s software, which is said to be the world’s first platform for digital postal mail, enables the creation of electronic facsimiles of paper mail that are delivered online to users, based on street addresses (Jackson, 2011).

Office workers and businesses are not limited to phone calls, meetings or mail to communicate with each other anymore. Electronic email can be used and not interrupt the recipient. The

"Privacy. There seems to be no legal issue today that cuts so wide a swath through conflicts confronting American society: from AIDS tests to wiretaps, polygraph test to computerized data bases, the common denominator has been whether the right to privacy outweighs other concerns of society…" This quote from Robert Ellis Smith explains, in one sentence, the absolute need to ensure privacy in the workplace. One of the most interesting, yet controversial, areas concerning public personnel is employee privacy. What limits are there to employers’ intrusions into, and control over, employees’ behaviors and personal properties?

Another technological innovation was the development of electronic mail, or email. Technically speaking, the telegraph was the first electronic mail. The next advancement of the electronic mail industry was the telex network, an advanced form of the telegraph that is still used today. From the 1940s to the 1980s, businesses widely utilized the telex network. In the 1960s and 1970s, many companies used mainframe and mini computers with

Electronic mail is utilized by various local, state and federal entities. E-mail provides a high level of convenience and accuracy in communication. "Over 40 million workers correspond via e-mail and that number is increasing 20% per year".[ii] Electronic mail (e-mail) is a form of correspondence that has become a popular form of communication in the public sector. Given its ease of use and convenience, e-mail is becoming the correspondence of choice through local, state and federal governments. E-mail is used to coordinate various levels of government, communicate information rapidly and disseminate information to a wide variety of persons in the quickest manner possible. E-mail also delivers cost benefits when compared to the cost of postal services.