10th March 2010, 7:59 PM
Weltall Wrote:You do?I think the postal service has been obsoleted by fedEx or UPS, for packages that's what I mean. As for letters, I would prefer any form of electronic medium, to snail mail, fax and email included.
Because, I'm pretty sure scanning a document with a computer scanner and sending the image via e-mail accomplishes the same task more efficiently.
For that matter, high-end scanners with character recognition capabilities can scan paper documents and convert them into computer text, which is even more useful.
Fax machines are totally obsolete. The postal service, however, isn't quite so obsolete yet. Not until it is possible to convert matter into data and reassemble it in a remote location.