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NYT: US Government Tracks Snail Mail Too
Email and phone call metadata certainly isn’t private, but maybe you were holding out hope that good old-fashioned snail mail somehow avoided big brother’s living gaze. The New York Times is reporting that’s all being tracked too. Surprise, surprise.
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Mailing Recorded Messages Was Once An Actual Alternative To Long Distance Calls
Sherman, set the wayback machine to ridiculous because back in 1967, Smith-Corona — best known for its typewriters — actually sold a device called the Mail Call. What did it do? Let users record messages on small cartridges and mail them to anyone with a matching device.
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Amazon And 7-Eleven In The US Want People To Pick Up Packages Whenever They Want
Amazon and 7-Eleven in the US are now teaming up to address the problem of waiting and missing packages in the form of a parcel locker. In fact, it sounds pretty similar to a concept that Australia Post is trialling in Brisbane.
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Get The Thoughtfulness Of Snail Mail With None Of The Effort
Some folks can’t embrace this digital world. They cling to snail mail and painstakingly write letters that most netizens don’t have the attention span to read, never mind respond. Don’t ignore these dinosaurs, use Snail Mail My Email instead.