Emails Vs Letters

In the olden days, letters were written on paper and sent by the
postal system or by an intermediary. A letter from Nigeria to the US
can take weeks to reach its destination and the reply would also take
weeks to get back to the sender in Nigeria. Some letters get lost and
don't reach their destinations. Also, the letter can be tampered with
by the intermediary, leaked to the wrong people or re-packed with a
letter bomb (like the Dele Giwa case in Nigeria). A secret love affair
can be exposed through a leaked love letter or card. When lovers break
up and marry other people, they often have to burn up a pile of
letters and photographs from their exes to re-assure their current
partners of their fidelity. Sending big parcels by post costs a lot of
money. Telephone conversations are faster but cannot be documented
like letters. Up till now, call logs only show that Number A was used
to call Number B today, without recording their conversation,voices or
faces. Text messages are documented but are automatically deleted to
make way for new messages and are not printable. Facebook messages are
printable but auto-deleted to make way for new messages.

Emails are the perfect solution to these problems. They are delivered
within minutes regardless of distance, can be as lengthy as letters,
are documented like letters, and cannot leak unless either the
sender's or the recipient's email account is hacked. Above all, nobody
can lace an email with a letter bomb. Whole books (e.g. E-books, and
Microsoft Word documents) can be uploaded and sent as attachments in
an email at no extra cost. Love emails and photos from exes remain
hidden away in the email box and don't have to be deleted. You don't
have to delete a photo of your child by another man/woman from your
email box to please your current partner.