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Maybe the postal service should offer email?

I’ve been thinking about how I could have email service that isn’t a constant battle against Google over deliverability without having to use Gmail/Outlook/etc. and all the evil bullshit that entails.

Maybe there’s other providers who have the reputation and resources to deal with this but it to me thinking: if the postal service can deliver mail to everyone with a mailing address, why not have them do the same for email?

I know historically they were competitors, but I think that time has long passed. Aside from giving everyone reliable email it could also be a way to get back to internet email standards and get companies like Google to handle internet email properly. It has the negotiation benefits of something like single-payer health insurance.

I’m sure there’s downsides, and you could always have additional, privately-owned service addresses for that.