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Monday,
October 8, 2001
USPS
and AOL Announce New E-mailer Service
The US Postal Service, famous for giving
you the neighbors mail, is looking
to cash in on the Internet boom with a new service developed jointly
with
America Online that will print out your emails and deliver them
to your
mailbox.
"It's just so convenient, " says Stacy Rollins, a housewife
from Shreveport
Lousiana. "It's such a hassle to wait for my PowerMac to boot
up and then
wait for a clear line on AOL. This way it right there in my mailbox.
Sure it
takes a few days, but I think it's a technological breakthrough.
If there
was only a way people could just send me the message directly."
she said in
an interview with The Wired Press, as she unknowingly ironed her
hand for
two minutes.
It seems that the USPS has their finger on the pulse on the needs
of the
below average American. Next month they plan on unveiling an expanded
service that would allow individuals to send memos written on paper
to
individuals anywhere in the United States on a subscription basis
for 35
cent per memo.
- Clark Brandon
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