2. Email is the main method of communicating in the 21st
century. Instead of asking for a telephone number or a
street address, people now ask for your email address. No
one writes a letter and sends it in the mail anymore and
very few invitations or birthday cards come through snail
mail. You can even get your monthly statements for cable
or Internet through email, so why do we need a post office
anymore.
3. Email is now just a part of everyday life as the post office.
However, we do need the post office to receive the
packages that we order through email. When you shop
online, you do need a way of getting what you paid for, so
yes we still need the postal system. What email has helped
to do is reduce the amount of paper that we have to
recycle or throw away, thus helping the environment. It
has also reduced the number of trees that need to be
destroyed in order to make the paper. There is a downside
to this as well. This reduction in paper production has
meant the loss of many jobs in the paper and logging
industry.
4. Email makes it possible to get messages instantly without
having to wait days or weeks for a reply. It is an
exceptional way of sending money to children in college
because with online banking you can now send money to
anyone in the world. Even if this is a complete stranger,
neither person has any idea of the bank account or even
the name of the bank that each one deals with. You simply
get a message that someone has sent you money and you
follow the steps to deposit the money right into your bank
account.
5. With email, the world has a much smaller place. You can
communicate with someone thousands of miles away in a
matter of seconds. It has also reduced the cost of long
distance telephone calls between business associates,
friends and family. Send and receive pictures through
email and keep in touch 24 hours a day.