On Fri, 04 May 2007 16:09:19 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:

On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:53:15 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-05-04 13:58:01 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
said:

In article ,
Andy Hall wrote:
The question then is what counts as essential. Postal service doesn't
really fall into that category, especially when there are much more
viable alternatives. If mail is delivered electronically, it can be
read when the recipient is anywhere in the world - far more useful.

You're assuming everyone has a computer and or can use one. This simply
isn't so.

Then people are going to need to learn.

My mum's 93 years old. Should she be expected to learn how to use a
computer?


It is indeed a bit late now, but computers did not arrive in a delta
function with zero time.

Anyhow it may not be totally impossible, if the change happened all
through the community they could be expected to support each other.

Why, maybe a local village electronic post office could be set up to
print out the emails and local volunteers deliver them to the old and
feeble (Such as myself ).

They have managed to use motor cars and to get onto buses and into trains as opposed to
requiring horses and carts after all.

She was quite a bit younger when she mastered that!

The Post Office recently closed down in our village after 150 years.
We can't understand why with modern vehicles and postal sorting
machines we can't have what our forefathers had 150 years ago, but it
must have been the case that the post office was not doing enough
postal business to justify it's existence.

DG