On: Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail

[cdcarter]

Many many people in large cities would prefer USPS for all package delivery. USPS tends to have keys to apartment building vestibules, allowing them to leave packages in secured areas instead of on a stoop.

[Fomite → cdcarter]

And this would have prevented the insidious theft of a large box of Girl Scout cookies, many years ago, when I lived in Boston.