• db2@lemmy.world
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    6 days 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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      4 days ago

      “The internet is not a big chariot. It’s a series of aqueducts…” – The Roman Senator from Ultima Thule

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      4 days ago

      Email was never a threat to mailed letters or magazines

      Excuse me? You didn’t put a /s in there, so I’m genuinely puzzled by your comment. If it was sarcastic, then well played.

      Granted magazines have died out because of websites, but letters?

      As a Dane unless you have an exemption, because you’re very old or intellectually challenged, then you’re required to have a special digital inbox for government and banking. When that was in introduced, letters died in less than a decade. To such a degree that the postal service stopped delivering letters last year.

      A private company took over the letter carrying responsibility, so you can still send a letter. But there are no mail boxes left, you have to go to a store that does packages as well and standing in line to send a letter. The private company btw did a splendid job of making the postal service seem competent in comparison. Something no Dane would have found possible in years prior.

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        4 days ago

        The post specifies USPS which means the time would be around 30 years ago in the US.

        I’m sorry to heat about your postal service. It’s a sad accomplishment to out-suck the US.

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      5 days ago

      You know, he was making a coherent point about bandwidth limitations, it was just phrased in a silly way because that’s how you have to talk to laymen.