From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 14:22:22 MDT
On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 02:05 pm, Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Even more exciting than email on your 4x16 wrist display...
>
>
>
> China To Offer Hand Delivered E-Mail
>
>
> The Associated Press
> Thursday, July 11, 2002; 9:25 AM
>
> BEIJING –– It's not quite e-mail. It's not quite regular mail. What
> it will
> be, China's postal service hopes, is a convenient alternative for
> customers
> who use the Internet – and a moneymaker for the government.
>
> China Post, the official postal service for the world's most populous
> nation, said Thursday it will introduce a new service enabling people
> to
> write mail on their computers, send it to the post office over the
> Internet
> like e-mail, then have it delivered anywhere in China by human mail
> carrier.
The U.S. Post Office already offered such a service, and it flopped
miserably. They also offered a service to send e-mail through them and
have them somehow verify delivery. That also flopped. I think these
are attempts for people to stay involved in industries where they are
not needed. The machines can handle all the e-mail without human
intervention.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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