The Mail
This month, Western Union sent its last telegram after more than 150 year of offering the service. Of those people who even remembered telegrams, most were shocked to learn that they were still around. The demise of the telegram was blamed on the rise of faxes, email, text messaging, cheap long distance and the world wide web, all of which made telegrams silly and obsolete. And yet, the mail, which precedes the telegram by several hundred years, continues to operate. Today I got a consumer survey, a credit card bill and a shampoo sample. Truly this is modern communications at its finest. What is the secret to the postal system’s success? Each year, make service a little worse (mailman, don’t think I haven’t noticed that you never deliver anything on Mondays) and charge one penny more for a stamp. What’s my proposal? Cut the number of postal workers by 80 percent and reduce service to once per week. I think I can wait 5 days to experience the awesome volumising benefits of vitamin E and aloe.
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I didn't get a shampoo sample. :-( All I got was a lousey copy of the Petawawa Post. Count your blessings. Crappy smalltown free newspapers are far bulkier than city junk mail, and they leave the cheap newsprint ink all over your hands and clothes when you try to wrench them out of your too-small mail box. And they're nowhere near as entertaining as Harold C. Funk's collected works. That dude's angry.
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