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E-mail surpasses postal mail in UK...I wonder why!?

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  • 13-03-2002 1:22pm
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    b20uvkft6m5xwg
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    A bit OT but shows the corelation between low price- always on internet access and its use for communciations.
    I think it also serves to rubbish Soula Evans claim ppl dont use the net because its boring and irrelevant-

    Well of course its if it so slooow and expensive!
    E-mail Overtakes The Letter
    http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,31500-1046090,00.html

    E-mail has officially overtaken the traditional post in the popularity stakes, research has shown.

    A study by Internet measurement company NetValue found 550 million e-mails were sent and received by UK homes in January - nearly 300 million more than the domestic amount handled by the Royal Mail.

    Alki Manias, managing director of NetValue UK, said: "This is a real milestone for e-mail.

    Surpassed

    "Although only widely available to the public since 1995, the e-mail has surpassed hundreds of years of domestic Royal Mail services in a few years.



    "We live in a fast-paced world and people want instant communications."

    Figures show nearly 13 million people regularly use e-mail from their home computers, sending 12.3 and receiving 39.1 e-mails on average during December.

    Householders
    The study also showed UK householders top the European league for e-mail use, sending 170 million more than the French and 185 million more than the Germans per month.

    A spokeswoman for the Royal Mail said e-mail and the traditional post were used for different reasons.

    "E-mails are often used for things like sending messages or jokes round the offices - things that the post would never be used for, so to compare raw figures is not comparing like with like," she said.


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    Xian
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    http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSTechNews0203/12_carroll-can.html
    The fact is, e-mail has come to play a huge role in the corporate sector, and truly changes the dynamic in any complex legal situation. For example, years ago, it wasn't easy for a CEO to contact all staff, and yet today, it seems that it is all to easy to hit the "ALL" field in the TO box. Sometimes they'll regret what they've sent, just as Ken Lay probably has.
    The volume of messages that can exist within a company is astounding. If everyone in a 500 person company sends 10 e-mail messages a day, they'll have sent some 1.3 million messages a year. What should we keep, and what should we get rid of? This number doesn't include any e-mail coming in from the Internet from customers, suppliers, business associates and others! Some estimates suggest that once it is all added up, Americans send some 1.5 billion messages a day.


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