Email Ripped Off Snail Mail

Just like the online shopping cart mimics the original, so too does email mimic the postal service.

Similarities

• Sending and receiving correspondence 
• Attaching pictures to a "letter" 
• Both mediums are sent to and from addresses
• Both are not sent directly to the recipient, but instead sent to a "mailroom" for organization and processing before they are sent to the recipient.
• Both are vulnerable to the information in the correspondence to be seen by people who aren't the recipient
• Both are susceptible to spam and viruses 

Differences 

• Email can be used to send the same correspondence to multiple recipients
• Snail mail is limited to one recipient per letter
• Email is much faster than snail mail
• Email can attach files, programs, applications, videos, etc. 
• Hand written letters cannot be seen unless the letter is in your possession and opened, while emails can easily be seen through computer witchcraft. 
• Emails will only be sent to exact addresses, while snail mail has more room for error
• Emails can be viewed from anywhere, while physical mail is grounded to a single location
• Physical mail requires that the sender knows your location
• Physical correspondence can be lost on its journey to the recipient, while emails don't get lost (even though somehow millions of Hillary's emails "couldn't be recovered." #LockHerUp)

Email has definitely changed the game. Nobody, except my grandmother, sends letters anymore because email is just too convenient. However, there is a time and place to send physical mail such as birthday cards, wedding invites, Dear John letters, etc. Even though the postal service is losing to email in the letter department it will always have something that email will never have and thats the ability to deliver to real world locations. Online shopping is massive and its only getting bigger, so snail mail isn't going anywhere.