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More E-mail, Fewer Mailboxes
mikesd81 writes "Over at the Baltimore Sun there is an article about the post office removing those blue corner mail boxes because of e-mail. From the article: 'As more people send e-mails and pay bills online, the decline in first-class mail is forcing the U.S. Postal Service to remove tens of thousands of underused mailboxes from city streets.' The article goes on to say that the boxes were an American icon: 'You recognize them in Chicago, you recognize them in D.C., you recognize them in Florida, you recognize them in Montana,' Pope said. 'It's a piece of American iconography that has a wonderful history behind it.'" What the article forgets to mention: they're like an American TARDIS for children.
Or is it one of those bullshit things that you turn into if you ask what it is?
Calling those children 'tards won't solve a thing. Oh no, I think I've misread something...
Interesting problem. I hear that top men are working on it now.
"What's a tardis?"
It's obvious why your posting this as an anonymous coward. Everyone knows that such blasphemy would carry an immediate ban for any registered user.
It's like applying for a job at ford and then at the end of the interview asking "what's a car?"
They'll use them for making a giant mailman eating machine. This will take care of the extra postal employees as well as the extra mailboxes.
This just in -- New models of mobile phones being designed with "power buttons". This unique feature allows one to turn the device off (!!) if one doesn't want to accept calls.
Wait a second... more breaking news! It seems that these same phones are also being equipped with ringtone volume controls and vibration functions! Not only that, but they also come equipped with small screens that display the identity of the incoming caller. And with a single button, one can choose to reject an incoming call!
It is truely a marvelous world of technology that we live in.
I thought rogue postal employees took care of that? Zing!
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It means that a tiny Superman would not be inconvenienced, but the regular-sized version might be.
Do farmers have little fingers and small heads with which to operate these phones?
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