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Fairfax
Cool! Rural Mail Delivery Routes for Fairfax County
1912 map of rural mail delivery routes in Fairfax County, Virginia.
E-COM letter (source: businessinsider.com)
The Failed Attempt by the USPS to Adopt Electronic Mail in 1982
In 1982, the United States Post Office launched a new system dubbed E-COM as an attempt to adopt the then-nascent technology of electronic mail. This story looks at the effort and the battles fought to bring the vision into production.

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