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Mail theft exists. In fact it's one of the leading causes of identity theft. And computer viruses? Any one ever been delivered anthrax through email?
by gerggerg 15y ago
Mail theft exists. In fact it's one of the leading causes of identity theft.
And computer viruses? Any one ever been delivered anthrax through email?
- mseebach 15y agoAnd a paper archive was never lost in a fire or flood.
- dwiel 15y agoAlso, I see way more junk mail in my mail box than I do in my email inbox ...
- beambot 15y agoWhat about in your spam folder? You sure it isn't just a case of good Bayesian filtering? Cool business idea: Bayesian filtering for snail mail.
- pavelkaroukin 15y agoFrom what I understand, all spam in mailboxes appear from cooperation of USPS with advertisers, since most ads do not have any address stamped on it. So it looks like USPS actually distribute spam.
- Wistar 15y agoOr something from Ted Kaczynski?
- a_a_r_o_n 15y agoOn the other hand, my email provider has never decided to just throw away my mail because it was too lazy to work its entire shift. Which absolutely does not characterize the majority of postal workers, but it's happened enough to make the news. There's no structural reason for any email employee to cause my email to not be delivered, but there is that structural possibility for a demotivated postal worker.