United States Postal Service tries to compete with Google using fear
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#2This is a perfect example of why the USPS is on its way out.
People haven't forgotten about the USPS. They simply naturally no longer have a need for it. We often check our mail once a week!
Why? Because we don't get anything useful in the mail. Just junk mail. Once a week, we think "Have we checked the mail this week? Hmm, better go check it."
No amount of advertising by the USPS is going to save them. They're not going to magically become useful again because they have TV commercials.
It's over.
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#3I'm going to be honest here for a moment. I agreed with everything you said, but the disorganized, grammatically-incorrect manner in which you delivered it made it harder to read and understand. Slang writing doesn't get a point across as well as a well-structured, creative sentence with a vibrant vocabulary.
Re: United States Postal Service tries to compete with Google using fear
#4This is a perfect example of why the USPS is on its way out. People haven't forgotten about the USPS. They simply naturally no longer have a need for it. We often check our mail once a week! Why? Because we don't get anything useful in the mail. Just junk mail. Once a week, we think "Have we checked the mail this week? Hmm, better go check it." No amount of advertising by the USPS is going to save them. They're not g…
It shows how hostile a dying industry becomes. Looks to me like the RIAA and USPS are in similar situations by the way they're acting.
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#5It's not good for the environment. Why kill more trees with junk mail?
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#6Mail theft exists. In fact it's one of the leading causes of identity theft.
And computer viruses? Any one ever been delivered anthrax through email?
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#7After being reminded of the "You wouldn't download a car" meme yesterday, I could completely see this becoming the next one.
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#8Is the author equating email with Google or am I missing something?
Re: United States Postal Service tries to compete with Google using fear
#9USPS blew it. They could have evolved/adapted into different businesses. Not only could they have competed with UPS and FedEX for parcel delivery at scale, but there was (and perhaps still is) an opportunity for an entity to provide 3rd party authenticated email service-- and charge for it.
Instead, they got comfortable with merely existing as a junk-mail conduit. Pathetic.
Sadly, in the current environment, where the failure of government programs is taken to be virtually axiomatic, the USPS is running out of slack to re-invent itself.
Re: United States Postal Service tries to compete with Google using fear
#10USPS blew it. They could have evolved/adapted into different businesses. Not only could they have competed with UPS and FedEX for parcel delivery at scale, but there was (and perhaps still is) an opportunity for an entity to provide 3rd party authenticated email service-- and charge for it. Instead, they got comfortable with merely existing as a junk-mail conduit. Pathetic. Sadly, in the current environment, where th…
The main problem the USPS has right now is that Congress a few years back mandated that they put aside money for pensions of USPS employees who haven't even been born yet, let alone hired. FedEx and UPS don't have that requirement.