February 23, 2025
From the first postal service to now, and horses to mail trucks, mail delivery has always added to our information infrastructure.
From the first postal service to now, and horses to mail trucks, mail delivery has always added to our information infrastructure.
Looking at the mail truck (and wagon and train), we see a metaphor for the system's innovative history and its current problems.
When the Universal Postal Union used four Rs to rank postal services in 172 countries, the United States was in ninth place.
With postal service innovation a basic problem, the U.S. Postal System is ranked lower than France, Japan, Poland, and nine other countries.