The Post Office Almost Delivered Your First E-Mail

Millions of Americans had their first encounter with e-mail thanks to a little help from the U.S. Postal Service, which stuffed mailboxes with discs for America Online. Yet, as Devin Leonard writes in his new book, "Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service," if things had gone differently, your first e-mail would have been delivered by your mailman.
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