Ezra Klein discusses the postal service as a dying industry, which I think is right, in the modern era of emails and PDFs and electronic banking and such. We're not there yet, given the potential break-downs in the system - what happens if my DSL goes down or the battery on my (new!) iPhone dies? But, the time for moving toward a more limited physical mail system is approaching.Still, the selfish contrarian in me wants to know how limited mail delivery would affect me, particularly in light of the specific events in my life. To be more precise, I subscribed for Netflix today, and I really like the idea of a one-day turnaround on my DVDs - that World's Greatest Dad should be arriving in tomorrow's mail! (Really, that's what I picked for my first movie from Netflix? Really.)
OK, I know the answer there is to just stream the movies through the computer or directly to my television - which is wildly more efficient than DVDs by mail, assuming sufficient bandwidth - but then how would I have a witty riposte in my post about the postal service?)
UPDATE: Well, that's a weird and disturbing - and very funny - movie. Williams is fantastic. "Bruce Hornsby" is really tall.
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