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From: cfh@cca.UUCP (Christopher Herot)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: ECOM/Telex/TWX/Telegram/Mailgram services
Message-ID: <5772@cca.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 21:49:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 26 21:49:09 1983
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Before you rush out to connect to ECOM, be aware that it only
barely qualifies as electronic mail.  Once the message is delivered
electronically to your local ECOM post office, it gets mailed from
THAT OFFICE.  Politics prevented the post office from doing the
obvious thing and sending the mail electronically to the office
nearest the recipient.  Thus the Postal Service is prevented from
competing with private companies which may offer the same service.
Instead, this puts the Postal Service in competition with many
small "letter shops" which presumably carry less clout in Congress.