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Sure but here is what everyone in this thread is missing: there is nothing (and I mean nothing) inherently official or legal about mail except that the governme
by bobbydroptables 7y ago
Sure but here is what everyone in this thread is missing: there is nothing (and I mean nothing) inherently official or legal about mail except that the government designated it as official 100+ years ago.
If the official channel was email and I said "let's switch to snail mail" you would all rightfully call me an idiot. You/we are all wedded to a really bad paradigm.
There's nothing stopping the government from letting you opt into an official email box.
- kube-system 7y agoYou are discounting the very thing that makes it important: the fact that it is directly beholden to the law. If the government controlled the entire email system, like they do the USPS, it wouldn’t be email as you know it today. But as email stands today, it relies on the voluntary cooperation of third-parties who operate on a best-effort basis. It has no governance. That’s a show stopper, not only for the US government, but for most governments around the world. I’m not aware of any country that has found it reasonable to do as you’re suggesting. Even Estonia, which has online elections, still finds it prudent to have a national mail service.