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E-mail and Snail Mail United

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:Hmm.. by Tango42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    No. Email is used to help send snail mail, not the other way round. Did you even read the article?

  2. FOOD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    can you get curry faxed also?

  3. Wow! by cookiepus · · Score: -1, Troll

    The indians have reinvented the concept of a telegraph, except they replaced morse code with e-mail.

    Americans were doing this stuff in the last century. Western Union, American Telephone & Telegraph, etc.

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  4. In Soviet Cambodia... by the+pickle · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...computer gets mailed!

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