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To: Elroy who wrote (155435)	1/30/2011 6:27:17 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543059

"Let FedEx handle physical package/mail delivery" UPS will love that. Also, USPS will deliver mail to all countries, thru the national postal services. The UPU will prolly have a say in that kind of arrangement. The Universal Postal Union (UPU, French: Union postale universelle) is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration (CA), the Postal Operations Council (POC) and the International Bureau (IB). It also oversees two cooperatives including the Telematics and EMS Cooperatives respectively. Each member agrees to the same terms for conducting international postal duties. The UPU’s headquarters are located in Bern, Switzerland.[1] en.wikipedia.org

To: Elroy who wrote (155435)	1/30/2011 6:44:23 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543059

I don't think we're quite ready to give up on the Postal Service. They are still delivering upwards of 177 billion pieces of mail annually, which works out to 584 million per day. ( Could a lot of that information be delivered electronically? Of course. But FedEx isn't an acceptable replacement, unless you want to pay ten bucks every time you need to mail a contract or something like that. I'm sure the time will come when we're all so wired up that the USPS will become unnecessary, but bear in mind that around 25% of the US population still has no internet access at all, and of those who do, a significant number are using dialup.

To: Elroy who wrote (155435)	1/30/2011 8:27:35 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543059

I disagree about magazines. To me the point behind subscribing to a magazine is the quality of printing and paper. (It would be prohibitively expensive to home-print a magazine.) Also the layout allows me unintended and collateral exposure to items, including ads, that a directed online search would miss. It's like e-books. I would much rather have a real paper book in my hands than squint at a screen. It's a much nicer experience even if the content is nominally the same.