The Joe-World Interface

Apr 05
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WTF USPS

It has just occurred to me how weird the US Postal Service is. It can’t get more analog, can it?

Lookit, if I want to send you a letter, I can type it up, put it in an envelope, then write your name and address on the envelope. I just write it on there with my hand. Then, I stick it in a box on the street! Eventually, it makes its way to a post office where a person reads the envelope with their eyes. Then that person makes a decision based on what I wrote on that envelope with my hand. Then that envelope gets sent to your house.

And this happens with millions of letters like this a day! How does something like this stil exist!?

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