The internet gave us email, which almost made the USPS extraneous. But then the internet gave us online commerce, which has made the USPS even more necessary.

🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

The internet gave us email, which almost made the USPS extraneous. But then the internet gave us online commerce, which has made the USPS even more necessary.

hogmomma@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 months ago

Email affected the USPS far less than people think it did.

EDIT: I should say the ADVENT of email.

Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Yeah, shitty politics has done more damage to the USPS.

Though there is some truth to OP, the new generation mail trucks are designed with less enveloped letters and more parcel post in mind than the Grumman LLV was.