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I would pay money to whoever could get rid of snail mail and make mail 100% electronic for me.

Unfortunately USPS are Luddites.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/04/29/How-US-Pos...

Yes! We could call it electronic mail or e-mail for short.

Am I missing something about Outbox? Why wouldn't they just give the people using this service a P.O box corporate office to use as their 'address' when getting something delivered?

I'm sure they thought of that. Probably some way USPS can refuse to acknowledge it or something.

I've always wondered why private mailbox numbers even need to exist. The numbers could be virtual and all of the packages could be in one place to be retrieved by workers on demand. Perhaps there's some sort of clause USPS has to defeat an idea like that or an arbitrarily low limit for how many #s can be at a physical location etc.

There are mail services that are pretty close to this in practice. Earth Class Mail is an example. Fairly expensive, but if you use them for your mailing address, they will receive the mail, scan the envelope, and provide you the option to have the mail physically forwarded, opened and digitally scanned, and/or junked.

Sending emails over POP

And then 2 hours later, mailbox botnets?