On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM Chris Zach <c...@alembic.crystel.com> wrote:

> Seems the USPS was trial building a system where you could bring a
> letter into a Post Office, they would scan it, then send it to another
> post office in MINUTES using a big packet switched network based on
> PDP11/23's connected to RM02's (yes, with Quuniverters)....

FedEx did this for a while in '84-'86 and managed to lose $320M in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapmail

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