US Postal Service Email
Internet July 31st, 2000
from Slashdot referencing an MSNBC article about the US Postal Service's plans to offer "free e-mail addresses to all 120 million of the nation's residential addresses." … great quote, "the most efficient spam delivery tool ever created."
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