Technology has reinvented the way many people do things in
everyday life from shopping, to creating and most importantly communication. In
the past the only way to communicate back and forth was trough the Postal
Service which many now call “snail mail”. Today with the creation of the
internet and world wide web communication has never been easier or faster with
things like email and text messaging. Email and the postal service have many
different aspects that set them apart but still contain some core similarities to
each other. Some similarities were used by email to make people more comfortable
with using it by making it familiar to the postal service. Email has an inbox called
a “mailbox” like the real mailboxes that postal mail uses to sent letters and
items to the correct location. The entire process of email is actually very
similar to postal mail. When someone sends a letter, it first gets taken to a
post office where it is then sorted by address. Once sorted it gets transported
to the correct post office, a postal worker then takes the specific address and
puts it in the correct mailbox. An email has a similar process. Once sent an
email gets sent to a DNS server which then sorts out the intended location
based on the IP address. The DNS server then send the email to the proper
location which then appears in the recipient’s online mailbox, like with the postal
service. Another similarity between the two is that both have a chance of being
stolen. Emails can be hacked, and physical mail can be taken. There are some
differences that set the two apart however. While email is generally free, postal
mail requires shipping costs or stamps because unlike email, there are postal workers
who need to be paid. Email also has the potential to fail to be sent, when
postal mail will also be sent to a location weather the address is correct or
not. with that being said, email is generally way faster. Email takes seconds while postal mail takes days or even weeks to arrive.
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