The flap of a pigeon’s wing, the trot of a horse's hoof, the taste of glue, a click of a mouse. The ways of communication have changed over time due to technology. Over hundreds of years, postal mail, has repeatedly adapted to try to meet the needs of the people. However its ability to improve speed has not been able to keep up with technology. In its earlier days postal mail was the fastest and most reliable way of communicating. We now refer to the US postal service as "snail mail" with time constraints that do not coincide with our fast pace lifestyles today. Because of this, email has become the competition for the traditional postal mail. With its popular click of a button delivery, email has sustained its place in the modern communication world. Although email is becoming more and more popular and provides the same ability to communicate as postal mail, I believe the differences are also significant enough to guarantee the survival of both methods.
The first thing that comes to mind when comparing email to postal mail is speed. Postal mail offers three main ways to send mail; parcel post, which takes anywhere from two to nine days for delivery, priority mail, which has an estimated arrival date from two to three days and the fastest of the three express mail which arrives at the designation overnight. Even though postal mail offers a variety of way to send a letter, it is no competition for email which can deliver a letter in seconds. Letters can reach there designation with literally the click of a mouse.
The convenience of email is immense, but is accessibility is limited. Email offers its speedy services to those who have access to the internet and unfortunately, that does not include the entire population. In fact, there are many households that are considered to be living in the “dark-ages”, without a computers and there are also many that even with the resources of a computer available to them, they wouldn’t know how to operate it. . However, good old postal mail service is very easily accessible to everyone. Unlike email, postal mail requires no return address, so even the people with out a current residence can use the services. All someone needs is a mailbox and thirty four cents and they have access to communication.
Email and postal mail serve many similar needs. They are both capable of sending letters, cards, pictures and even videos from one point to another. Nevertheless email is lacking something that postal mail is not, the ability to send packages. Toys, books, clothes and even a car, postal mail has given people the capability of sending practically anything from on point to another for generations.
Reliability becomes another concern when it comes to communication. Though the postal service offers delivery confirmation, it does not one hundred percent guarantee that you letter with arrive to the correct designation. Like postal mail, email cannot give you the assurance of delivery. Letters get lost and computers crash, neither of the way of communication can be a sure thing.
Sorting through junk mail can be a challenge, whether is it in your mail box or you inbox. Those that receive junk mail in the mailbox have to physically sort through each piece to try and distinguish which pieces are junk mail and which are not. Fortunately, those with email do not have to perform this sometime tedious task. Your email provider does it for you. Email offers junk mail, or spam, filters, which can automatically sort out unwanted emails. Spam filters are another luxury that email can provide, and “snail mail” is lacking.
Speed, accessibility, reliability, volume and convenience are all things that should be considered when deciding how to communicate. Though mail and email both have the same means to an end, they differ just enough to create a need for the continued use of both methods.PLeAsE!! read my short paper and tell me if it makes sense!?
I had to stop 1/3 of the way through. It is an interesting theme and article, with good examples to back up the claims, but you shouldn't have stopped with spell checking. You have many words that are spelled right, but the wrong word is used, and you have missing punctuation marks. You need someone to proofread it if you can't find these mistakes yourself.
I'd give you a B+ for content, and a C- for grammar, punctuation, and incorrect word usage, for a B-/C+ overall.PLeAsE!! read my short paper and tell me if it makes sense!?
34 cents? What country do you live in? You can't send a postal money order through e-mail either. Also, it's rare that your Internet Service Provider will steal your credit card, and not as rare that your letter carrier does it; and your PC will never come to work in the morning and shoot its supervisor either. Just thought I'd throw a little Postal humor into the mix. Also, anyone with half a brain can log into a free e-mail account on a public computer (again, what country do you live in?). I find it hard to believe you wrote this, and if you did you haven't mailed anything in a couple years at least.PLeAsE!! read my short paper and tell me if it makes sense!?
Of course it makes sense. And it isn't dull and boring either, it has life. I'd give you an A.
Grammatically, you should combine the first and second sentences, and get rid of the comma after postal mail.
I wondered why postal mail will continue to exist when other older forms of communication are dead, and I also wondered where the telephone fits in.
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