Without a major bailout, it seems the US Postal Service is about to go bankrupt. I feel bad for mailmen (mail people?), but I can’t really think of anything I would miss about snail mail. Maybe it’s just time for snail mail to rest its slimy shell next to the telegraph and rotary phone (just leave the light on for fax machines and printers).
I guess there is one thing I’d miss: birthday cards from grandparents, aunts, etc. Beyond the way their scrawled messages of love mesh (or don’t) with the stock birthday card they happened to choose, I also love the tiny bit of randomness-how the cards all arrive within a 4 day time frame around your birthday, because no one really knows how to time a letter.
When the postal service goes bankrupt, I guess the card-senders will just write on our Facebook walls.
