Gnomes Primary Mailing Method vs. Snail Mail

When I refer to Snail Mail I am speaking of the post office and how they manage and deliver mail. Today we call it snail mail because of the painfully long time it takes physical objects to traverse our world. However this is because we can compare it to the transfer rate of digital media which is a unfair comparison. Which brings me to the actual comparison of the two methods of communication and delivery. First we have speed, obviously email wins out being able to send or receive a message in seconds all around the world. Next we have physical space of operation, the email can be housed in a single warehouse of servers or multiple across a wide area, however Snail Mail has to have huge warehouses and many people working on it and it is most definitely run at a loss. Which brings us to cost of use, as of right now the cost of stamps and the government funding does not meet the cost to run the US postal service, they are currently 5.6 Billion in debt due to running costs being too much. However with email the cost is much cheaper I do not know the exact value but the versatility of email allows it to only cost power to run the servers and keep them cool and programming costs. As we spoke in class on the matter they both function very similarly but in operation they are very different. The only reason the Post office is still around if because people like to send birthday cards and packages, as well as bills.
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