Apparently this morning there was Crime afoot in my neighborhood. Some car was driving around taking mail out of people’s mailboxes. An attentive neighbor noted the license plate and called the police, so hopefully the nasty perpetrator gets his dozen lashes and learns not to poke around in other people’s business…a lesson that a few other folks could stand to learn, come to think of it.

Regardless of contemporary politics, this event reminded me of how annoyed I am at the USPS ever since last fall when they started a rather pathetic and desperate campaign to harm the environment. According to the USPS, snail mail is safer and more reliable than email, because people are handling it…except that I don’t leave my email in an unlocked box on the street curb. Maybe all the USPS employees use Mailinator or something.

I’m thinking about starting a campaign to revive the telegraph business. I’ll hinge my core selling point on the security benefits over snail mail.