Neither Snow nor Rain (2016)

NEGLI USA STA uscendo un volume dedicato alla storia del servizio postale (che da quelle parti ha avuto un ruolo notevole, dai pony sulle piste del West ai trasporti aerei nella tormenta). I recensori che cercano un appiglio con l’attualità hanno trovato una curiosità gustosa: poteva essere l’US Postal Service a diventare il fornitore nazionale della email

Money Quote: “In 1971, the same year a computer engineer sent the first-ever computer-to-computer message, the U.S. Postal Service hired Gene Johnson to explore futuristic mail services. Johnson didn’t know much about the mail or the future. He had served in the Peace Corps and worked as a corporate financial analyst. But once he started working for a 196-year-old government bureaucracy, he became an entrepreneur for the rapidly approaching digital age.”

Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service