Get ready to kiss the Post Office goodbye, it is in serious financial trouble and on the way to oblivion. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have wiped out the revenue needed to keep the Post Office alive. Most of your mail is junk mail and bills. Britain is laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions annually to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will eliminate checks and that will kill the post office. Young folks don’t subscribe to a daily delivered print edition so papers and delivery system will go the way of the milkman. You can read them online but get ready to pay for that. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
Books are in trouble but you can read and not own them in a year or so, like you can download music. You will be able to browse a bookstore online and read a preview chapter before you buy. The price will be less than half that of a real book. Another victim, unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls you won't need a landline telephone. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes. And, finally, television will be watched through your computer. Cable rates are skyrocketing even though commercials arrive every 5 minutes. Be ready for the changes.
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3 comments:
All this is true, but when will we see a change in what counts and that is with the nincompoops in City Hall? They drive up our taxes and spend our money and then ask for mor and th emayor has th gall to say it is all for our good. Go figure. I say save the papers and throw-out the the bums that spend and spend. Then again, I can not wait to hear the latest claim from the long line of appoligists that will say it just ain't so!
Paying your bills over the internet has become a new source for identity theft. Many utility customers have gone back to the old snail-mail method dropping off bills at the post office instead of leaving them in their mailbox where anyone could get a hold of them. I have no doubt the USPS will survive but services will be greatly scaled down like home delivery and instead more post office boxes will be available. Sadly we are becoming a little too dependent on electronic medium for our entertainment. God help us all if the lights go out some day.
No daily home delivery for mail but we are paying for at least three public school buses everyday to pick up and drop off the kids at the doorstep. Does something seem wrong here?
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