The postal service has been around for many ages,
spanning back to ancient times. First form of messages that is similar to
postal service I would say would have been when people used birds to send
messages over large distances quickly. People would write a small messages
attach it to the bird’s feet and then send the bird to a place or a person.
Another form is a person going on a horse or by boat to deliver messages, this
is the closest to postal service and going by horse, boat or using birds this
happened five hundred to thousand years ago. So conveying messages has been
around for long time. I guess the first messages were for trade for war
purposes. To communicate with your allies or business partners was crucial. I
would think that sending messages to family or friends only came up during
major travel and colonizing when Europe set their eyes on the world. And back
then it would take months to years to get in contact or receive the messages.
So when technology became advance enough to send messages
through a network people were excited, excited because of how quick and
efficient it was. Again first group of people to use electronic mail was the
military or science and education departments. Just like in ancient time it
came about through the advent of war. To send a secret messages to the opposite
side of the world within seconds. To have a discussion within seconds this is
what the electronic mail did. When the time came to when the public was using
it, people had to think of a way to make it approachable and simple to everyday
people. Otherwise it would fail simply because of not having knowledge of its
functions. So now it’s very similar to a postal service which we have known since
ancient time.
What is a postal service, it is a company who receives
mail written by a person who wants it delivered to another person and the post
office company is the intermediary between them. They only require an envelope
with the letter inside and the address on the envelope, and a stamp, and fee to
deliver it. The post man then gets his bundle of mail from the post office then
goes and delivers them throughout his sector of the city. But an Electronic
mail cuts the intermediary off which is the postal service and the mail man.
E-mail directly sends you written message to the other person.
E-mail was so simple and efficient that the postal
service no longer mattered but they are not useless yet. E-mail had the same
basic functions as the Postal service such as a space to write the letter and a
title. And address to input to send to the specified person. And just like the Postal
Service, E-mail would go to the sever which is the Postal office and then go to
the person. The interface to use and E-mail is so similar to and actual
experience of going to the post office. You have a send button and or a picture
of an envelope to click. You have an inbox to receive the mail. Have junk and
spam mail these are all experiences had before the E-mail from the Postal
service.
The major differences are that E-mail is faster and
more efficient. No bills and payment required you don’t even have to leave your
house to send the mail. One of the advantages of a postal service is the
ability to ship objects. And when you send a letter it will most likely get to
its destination even if you made some mistake on the address, Because of the
Mail man’s familiarity with the area and community. If you make an error on the
address of an E-mail it will go to the wrong person or won’t go to any person.
Let’s hope that we can ship objects through electronic means in the future so
we can be lazy bums and stay in the house.
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