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Do we really need the traditional mail system anymore?
As the deal that royal mail faces having 30% of the company being sold off and privatised looking set to go through, we have to wonder if the mail room services are needed anymore.
Is the written letter in danger of dying out? The invention of email has had a damaging effect on letter writing, with the instantaneous sending and receiving, the next to nothing cost and doesnt have the hassle of going out to the postbox/post office to send it. Email has benefitted us all, from spell checking our mail and covering huge distances in seconds. Hasnt email evolved to the point where it is as personal and formal depending on the nature of the letter?
Theres still the need for some direct mail services. Bills are still sent out via the post, but how long before the whole country is online, and receiving their bills via the internet? Packages can still be delivered via the mail, but some items such as dvds and cds are now being downloaded and burned from our computers. Even the bigger items are being arranged to be picked up from the computer now.
So why do we still love having a tangible product and mail we can hold and pop down to the postbox? We can put those christmas, birthday and valentines day cards that took so much effort that we cherish aside to view years later. Certain people just cannot get to grips with their computers will still use conventional mail systems because they need to. Some items to small for courier will still have to be sent via a postal service.
So now we have to ask, what is to become of our mail system -and would we miss it if it disapeared.
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