If your national postal service ran a Mastodon server, would you use it?
#EvanPoll #poll
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113649548748036999
71 ███▊ Strong yes 150 ████████ Qualified yes 123 ██████▌ Qualified no 124 ██████▌ Strong no
@evan If theUS post office had a banking division, they would have my money.
This was an intense one! A lot of people seem to be unaware of the other services that post offices worldwide provide or have provided in the past: telephone & telegraph (PTT), email, file […]
@evan I wouldn't, but it would be worthwhile. They should also run an email service. France's La Poste does, and it makes sense to me.
@evan I would use it, only to ask them how they managed to lose a 60 dollar package completely
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... I would encourage others to use it! We should get Canada Post on this, Evan!
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In Germany, Deutsche Post offered the "Lifetime" service with a @epost.de e-mail address. Well, I'm still alive, but the service is no longer there. I have no great expectations of an […]
@evan I remember people with UK Royal Mail email addresses, don't know if it was a paid service or not
@evan ask me again more than 24h after the end of a postal disruption
@evan Considering every package that doesn't have tracking always end up lost, no.
@evan if I ran a Mastodon server, would my postal service use it???
It is about de-centralization...
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