Mail/packages sent via the United States Postal Service have more constitutional protections than those sent via commercial carrier or email.
Then Capitalism gave us delivery services, and the US government made the USPS bankrupt and obsolete.
Email was never a threat to mailed letters or magazines. It was some nonsense thunked up by the same caliber of technophobe that called it the webbernet and thought it really was just a series of tubes.
I bet actual personal letters are less than 1% of what USPS delivers these days
Back when my brother was in jail, I was personally boosting that percentage by writing to him every week. Sometimes, he’d even write back. (some/most jails are wicked restrictive on correspondence and Internet access, and a letter is much cheaper than a jail phone conversation.)
That’s awesome and wholesome
It sucked being the kid at summer camp that never got mail. I figured jail was similar, so I made sure he had mail. I didn’t always have much to say, so often I’d send a greeting card filled with writing or sometimes just a post card. The act of sending/getting mail was the important bit.
I’m pretty sure it was so much worse, and that you made it so much better for him.
fun fact: street vehicles are still being used to transport data around. for large amounts of data, it’s faster and cheaper to write it on a disk, then ship the disk, instead of transporting it over the internet.
I remember someone put a Micro SD card on a pigeon and sent it. Was faster.
