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Tag results: Mail

The Payment Comes After

Discussing the evolution of the cash-on-delivery system for mailing goods, why it faded out, and where it actually remains in use. Sorry, no “Sorry, no C.O.D.”

Jun 12, 2020

Fishing For Checks

The rise of mail fishing—which involves sticky glue, string, and blue postal mailboxes—represents a growing threat to the physical mail system. Really.

Apr 18, 2018

Lickety Split

Why lick-on adhesives on letters maintain a market presence, despite being seemingly old-hat. (Well, except for stamps. We kinda gave up on ‘em there.)

Apr 11, 2017

Delivered To Your Door

The internet made monthly subscription boxes cool, but the roots of this business model can be found in decisions made in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Feb 16, 2017

The First 12 Cost A Penny, But …

In the 1980s and 1990s, Columbia House could do no wrong—as a way to get music, the mail-order service was cheap and easy at first. Then, the bills came.

Jun 11, 2015

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