Snail Mail Advantage

All through history people have communicated with each other in different ways. For instance, some used birds to transport their messages while others used smoke of fire to signal their friend who were far from them. Lately postal mail was used as a mean for communication, which was referred to as “snail mail”. Before telephones the only way to communicate with each other was to write letters. It took days before the letter got to the receiver and it took days for the writer to get the reply. Then telephones were invented and conversations became instantaneous. Most people loved the telephone and its convenience but some enjoyed and missed writing letters. And with the invention of telegraph and improvement of civilization a new tool came in known as e-mail.

Many of us turning on computer and checking for mail messages has become part of our everyday life. The increasing fame of e-mail makes us fully dependent on it. We can simply become aware of the advantages of e-mail over snail mail, which includes speed, low cost, and convenience. However, we would be foolish to abandon the post office or regular mail already. For some purposes, e-mail does not really satisfy our needs so we cannot say that it is enough as replacement of snail mail.

There are lot of things we should remember particularly the advantages of using “snail mail” in terms of privacy, security, reliability and some of these are undermentioned in some resources. “It's a federal crime to steal or open other people's snail mail, while email has no such law governing it. Some email systems, like those used in most workplaces, are very safe, but there is still nothing stopping the site administrator from viewing your messages. Snail mail was protected by federal law, but email accounts and messages can be easily intercepted, read and abused. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security notes that email logins, passwords and even messages sent in plain text are the most at threat. It advises choosing an email program that has a "secure mode" to help protect your information. Mail carriers still have the responsibility of delivering the mail during the worst conditions, which is not the case with email. If your computer crashes, your email server is locked or not working or you have a power outage, your email access can be down (for a short time or indefinitely). If your email service abruptly terminates, you will lose all files and messages unless you have saved them elsewhere on your computer. Snail mail gives you the hard copies of any important documents, letters or other items you wish to save.”

And another advantage of snail mail was the size, shape, color and texture of snail mail items are limitless, as long as they properly fit in an envelope or box that can be shipped through the postal service. Some email programs will only accept text files, while others have severe size limitations on attachments, including photos, video and other multimedia files. Email is also easily prone to a bunch of junk mail, or spam. And lastly our penmanship can be developed using snail mail including our knowledge of writing, grammar and expressing our emotion.

Upon knowing some of these things, using e-mail will never stop since it was and will be part of our life. But still we have reasons to not disregard “snail mail” as another way of communication here in our modern world because just like e-mail it also have advantages.