Similarities and difference between E-mail And Postal Mail

Similarities and differences between E-mail And Postal Mail.

In this world people need commutation in order to connect or send their message across to other person. Communication could be done by verbal, written, visual etc. Both the postal mail and electronic mail (email) are a form of communication, which people use. Postal mails are used from centuries ago and are still being used as a vast communication method. But email is around just a few decades ago and is vastly getting bigger form of communication. Both the postal mail and email have many similarities and differences.

Lets talk about the similarities first between the email and postal mail. Both the email and postal mail have a have destinations they have to get to. Both can be used to send documents, information, photos, and greeting cards.  Both get the junk mail- advertisements or different promotions from the companies. Both can be used to either send money or receive money ex: cash or check in postal mail and electronic transfer or withdraw of your bank from your email to do online shopping). Both have similar traveling process in which the mail is delivered to its destination, in which case postal mail will go through from one post office to another post office, and email go through one server to another server to get to the receiver. Also both are delivered to a location for each participant address inside their inboxes or mailboxes. But there are also differences between postal mail and email.

When we start talking about differences first thing that pop up in mind was the time. Postal services can take days in order to reach it receiver, whereas email only takes few seconds. Another difference is that email only work with Internet and if the person is out of email then there is no way the person can view email, whereas postal mail is delivered to your house without the use of Internet. Also in order to send the postal mail a sender needs to buy the postal stamp, which cost some money, whereas email doesn’t cost anything. Postal mail can be used to ship objects (toys, household items etc.) but email can only send either written or verbal but not the actual objects. Also the when sending the email if any error occurs to recipient name or address then it will go to wrong person or won’t go to any person, whereas in postal mail is less worry on the name or address of the recipient and still can be received by the right person.

Even thou there are similarities and differences, both email and postal mail are still a huge part of our day to day communication. As the postal mail is running from long time, email has also managed to be part of everyone and will be there in future as well, just like a postal mail.