E-mail and Snail Mail United

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 21, 2004 @02:52AM from the thinkin-with-your-noggin dept.

bahree writes "The BBC has an interesting story about how some people living in some of the most inaccessible areas of India are enjoying an improved postal service - thanks to the combining of e-mail with traditional 'snail mail'."

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Hmm.. by SillyNickName4me · 2004-03-21 02:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Does that mean they will get all those interesting offers for generic viagra and such by snail mail there?
Spam by Hello+this+is+Linus · 2004-03-21 02:56 · Score: 3, Funny

Now every one can enjoy spam...even rural India.

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Anthrax by b0lt · 2004-03-21 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Now we'll really need that virus scan ;)

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Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers by stonebeat.org · 2004-03-21 03:02 · Score: 3, Funny

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers (Pigeon) .

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Re:In summary.. by ergo98 · 2004-03-21 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Post offices in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh will take a customer's handwritten letter and computer scan it. Then the letter can be e-mailed to remote, high-altitude post-offices in this Himalayan region.

Hrmmm...this technology sounds intriguing. I propose that we name it "fax" (just an arbitrary name that came to my head).
That's the reason! by trveler · 2004-03-21 03:14 · Score: 5, Funny

No wonder all our jobs are going to India... their snail-mail is much faster than ours!

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Re:Trustability is the key by Jay+L · 2004-03-21 03:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Imagine a powered-by-human ATM cash machine.

You mean, like, a bank?
in other news... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-21 03:33 · Score: 3, Funny

The postal service here is now experimenting with genetic modified eagles to get them to fly faster than the speed of light, in order to catch up with the Indians.

More news at 23:59 MOT (My Own Timezone)

Duplicates posted later on slashdot at the top of every hour!
Seen it before... in Australia! by mlambie · 2004-03-21 06:16 · Score: 4, Funny

A friend of mine that I went through uni with works at Westnet (A relatively large, Perth-based ISP). Over a BBQ lunch the other day, he told of a story in which the support team received a snail mail with the envelope addressed to, get this, support@westnet.com.au.
And you guessed it, the return address was the customer's e-mail address. The note compained how their e-mail was not working.