[93271] in Cypherpunks
Re: USPS loosing business to email [CNN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill.stewart@pobox.com)
Thu Jan 15 20:39:33 1998
From: bill.stewart@pobox.com
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:23:03 -0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Original-From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801130133.TAA24345@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: bill.stewart@pobox.com
It's especially a problem for them because email is replacing a lot
of Express Mail, Fedex, and similar higher-priced services,
so profits get hit harder.
The phone companies are having the same problem - while voice over
the Internet isn't making much of a dent, expensive international calling
has a lot of fax traffic that's easy to turn into email.
And the Web is replacing a lot of 800-number calling
for information services from companies, which are also
a higher-profit part of the business.
At 07:33 PM 1/12/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>Forwarded message:
>> U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LOSING BUSINESS TO COMPUTERS
>>
>> e-mail vs. snail mail January 12, 1998
>> Web posted at: 3:25 p.m. EST (2025 GMT)
>>
>> NEW YORK (CNN) -- The U.S. Postal Service is facing stiff
>> competition from computers, according to an article in the January
>> 19 issue of Time Magazine.
>>
>> Electronic mail could replace 25 percent of conventional mail, or
>> "snail mail," by the year 2000, the article said.
>>
>> The Postal Service lags behind Federal Express and United Parcel
>> Service in shipping packages. The latter already moves 80 percent of
>> the country's packages, according to the article.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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