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 sharing and storage, banking. Post offices are often the national government's way to provide communications, financial and transportation services to citizens.
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@evan I'm late to this poll, but want to add to this history. David Graeber uses chapter 3 in Utopia of Rules on this connection between the emergence of the international postal service which […]
Anyway, I'm a qualified no. I don't think post offices should have a monopoly on social networking services like they have or had in other media, and if they didn't, I probably would use [���]
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