{"id":2378,"date":"2006-06-02T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2006-06-02T08:31:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T08:31:59","slug":"email_addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"Email Addresses to Steer Snail Mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1970609,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594\">Ben Charny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The U.S. Postal Service was recently asked to start delivering packages and letters based on someone&#8217;s e-mail rather than street address.<\/p>\n<p>he request is from Los Angeles-based Inventerprise LLC, which wants to conduct a trial run of its so-called Shelmail e-mail-to-snail addressing system sometime in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Shelmail proposal is noteworthy because it suggests that e-mail addresses are a better means of delivering physical mail than what the postal service uses now.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, Shelmail questions just what constitutes someone&#8217;s &#8220;address&#8221; nowadays. For now and probably decades going forward, it&#8217;s a description of a physical location, in the form &#8220;101 Second Street, San Francisco, Calif., 94105.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An answer in search of a question?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Charny: The U.S. Postal Service was recently asked to start delivering packages and letters based on someone&#8217;s e-mail rather than street address. he request is from Los Angeles-based Inventerprise LLC, which wants to conduct a trial run of its so-called Shelmail e-mail-to-snail addressing system sometime in 2008. The Shelmail proposal is noteworthy because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}