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BEAR CREEK PHILOSOPHERHe's Skeptical of New Electronic Mail'Oi ' ' Philosoi Editf’i note The Be■pher a?;, h h ]ohn$0‘i grc s* farm on Hear ('nek seerrs to be dragging hs feet on anew iden, U'$ fetter Him tteek tedtcnt^sjDear edttarH#*re ^ ii *n!y a week .* 11 ♦ • t t h« • count i y ha Helt; ted a new President and some thinghavi* a 1 rca tv moved forwar d?7v MR:Fur example, the mail service red themail service generally* it’s about where italways was and I don t have any complaints about it, but a particular ilea for the mail serviceA . I under *»!and d the post office dcpait-menl in Wadungtur is experimenting with a new’ type of mail delivery m which you writea left* r on a peeial pielt; e of paper, fold itinto an rn vv'p- drop it m a malt; him The machine them opens it looks at it, finds outH Iclectropicailyup the originalsereit s uiin g4transmits iitsdesiioate in,then tear it th's re cm ving «.*nd anotherduces it. seals ih and hands it ovci to the local post office t r dehvf I y.I have b* tliii king about thi \ .ter: andI have f;,y doubt in the* first place, j! themachines can deliver a letter from New York to the Harm Hon post office, it won't he long befor*- v. »n o fr dy wanting to move* even fur -ther forward will figure out I ovv to havlt; it d *1 /ered electrorncally to my mail Ih x, and1 n : uvmg ?i ole enough keeping rr.y present mail bo:lt; propfwd up with.out having to maintain an electronic brain machine alongside it,In the u cond plac e I don't ever remember having received Jettei on any day that I’d have hern any better of I oi more informed if it had gotten to rn* two dav-, eai her. V**r vr * w ••few pr oph* l ave any thoughts or messages to convey to me that are that important. And 1don't know of anybody, congressman, governor shi i iff, new spaper editor, who would Ih* en better off or any more* informed finding out what I think two days carlo r tl an he cm find out now. I take the position that if it takes me :t week *o think up an idea, any*body waiting on it can wait an extra day and not be hurt In some eases ho could neverhear and Ik* jud a . well »|f And this thing works vice versa.It n ay Ik* important to get a guah d mis. lie to ;t* dcstm liinn m thutv minutes, hut v«u yfew thoughts are that levastating.I think the country ought to nov he wuid, e ven »f d has to go around me to do if. butelectronic mail v i vice may not be in tfsdrategorv. lit riot interested in this rountiv’snK room•' to lt;»-t rr.y :i-. »ntL!y biiS to too t ■ lt;i;»% ••.irlii.-i tOin I v,lt; ttir ■; r ,..nnow.Yo-.Jf f lithftllh J A
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Hamilton Herald News
Hamilton, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1960
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