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Opinion: Pushing the Envelope

(Oct. 4) -- I am quite possibly the only fossil on the planet who laments the demise of the U.S. Postal Service. Its appeal to raise the price of a stamp a mere two cents was turned down last week, causing the already ailing agency to take a turn for the worse. Over the next decade, the USPS is expected to lose an...

Postal Service's Proposal for 5-Day Delivery in the Mail

(March 30) -- Saturday "snail mail" is one step closer to going the way of the carrier pigeon. The U.S. Postal Service submitted its "five-day delivery" proposal to regulators today, moving to scrap Saturday mail delivery in an effort to shave $3.1 billion annually from the $238 billion in losses the agency estimates by...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

Dulaney Was Named 'Waonspekiye,' or 'Teacher'

The first I ever heard of Professor William I. Dulaney was in 1983 when I received a letter -- it was not known as snail-mail back then -- saying that he had been reading my newspaper, Lakota Times , and he wanted to talk to me about a couple of things that perhaps, we could work on together.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Pamela J. Stubbart: Are We All Deschoolers Now?

Ivan Illich (1926-2002) has long been one of my favorite thinkers.

SnailMail News From the Web

04/17/12 Bye-bye, benefit checks by snail-mail Source: The Durango Herald - Durango CO
07/25/11 Cabinet snail-mail baiters Source: Manila Standard Today CITIZENS who want to write a letter direct to their favorite P.Noy Cabinet secretaries may have no choice but to still rely on snail mail.
11/02/10 PROBLEM SOLVER: Full information required Source: Wicked Local Brockton - Brockton MA Please be sure to read columns to the very end, noting the paragraph below asking for complete identification information â in snail-mail, e-mail and now, in on-line submission forms.
11/01/10 PROBLEM SOLVER: Full information required Source: Wicked Local Middleborough - Middleborough MA Please be sure to read columns to the very end, noting the paragraph below asking for complete identification information â in snail-mail, e-mail and now, in on-line submission forms.
09/29/10 Are Greeting Cards a Thing of the Past? Source: Freakonomics - The New York Times This year, we emailed an electronic letter reporting on our family events and offering best wishes to all the friends and relations to whom in the past we had snail-mailed Jewish New Year greeting cards.

Background on SnailMail

Snail mail or smail (from snail + mail) is a dysphemistic retronym—named after the snail with its slow speed—used to refer to letters and carried by conventional postal delivery services.

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