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People use email but they also use papermail. No one writes a love letter or send a regular message over paper mail but plenty of correspondence still happens b
by _8j50 5y ago
People use email but they also use papermail. No one writes a love letter or send a regular message over paper mail but plenty of correspondence still happens by paper mail. Email itself is becoming obsoleted now bu newer message protocols but papermail will be around. Being used less does not mean displaced. Papermail lost the popularity contest but is still alive and kicking because the infrastructure is still very useful. You wouldn't vote by email but you would via papermail. And to your point, there is a reason paper mail is used for official purposes. It is the only way to deliver a message to the person residing at a fixed physical address.
- selfhoster11 5y agoYes, plenty of correspondence still happens, but it's usually a receive-only basis limited to, again, legacy applications. You wouldn't vote via email, but you can definitely vote online in multiple countries. And again, that's a legacy application for interfacing with an "important" entity (the government). > It is the only way to deliver a message to the person residing at a fixed physical address. Fixed physical addresses are overrated, and they change (tenants, recent home buyers). If you want to ensure you can deliver a message, you need to know how to contact them in other ways too.