I was reading in the March 15, 2010 edition of Time Magazine, about the plight of the U.S. Postal Service. It seems that so many people are e-mailing now that the postal service is losing tons of money - "$238 billion...over the next decade" to be more exact. The article also says that "4 out of 5 households with Internet access now pay bills online..." (16). Will there come a time when everyone pays bills electronically? I wonder what our postal service will look like fifty, or one hundred years from now. Will the cost of a stamp be $5.00 in order to defer costs? Will mail only be delivered two days a week? As it is, there is talk of the end of Saturday service.
Who knew that technology would affect an institution that has been taken for granted since the early days of our country.

And will we see "all classic texts finally become avilable online," as Bolser and Grutin suggest could happen. Will our libraries become vacant storage houses for antiquated books? Kindle and its kind seem to be hurrying that scenario along, but I hope that the feel of the actual book, and the turning of the pages will keep people coming back to the real thing.