How the Postman Almost Owned E-Mail

TechReview.com takes a look at U.S. Postal Service Owning Email.

They say The Postal Service had considered electronic mail ever since the invention of the telegraph.

The Postmaster General of the United States in 1982, William F. Bolger, said “the Postal Service be prohibited by law from entering the ‘Generation III’ (terminal-to-terminal) business. That aspect is the proper domain of the telecommunications industry. Our mandate for 206 years has been the delivery of hard-copy messages. That will remain our function.”