Now why would, oh say I, need to use the USPS.com email instead of simply having someone send me email to my regular email account? -Or- giving the US government my regular email account instead of one ending in USPS.com? Can you tell me what advantage that is to me?
Tim-
Because you would have to sign up with one of your other e-mail accounts.
With a USPS.com account, local, state, and the federal governments could automatically send it to all USPS.com accounts. This is important because every citizen would automatically be entitled to a USPS.com account.
And, again, that's even if we use e-mail, which I think may go obsolete. A
better thing to do would be to make the USPS site a social networking site. On it, government officials could communicate to everyone else on it.
The reason why this is important is mostly for emergency announcements from the government, but also as a way to
ensure the people get vital information.
Take, for example, the Hurricane Irene. It hit areas not used to hurricanes. The Department of Homeland Security could use the USPS site to send information on how to properly prepare for a hurricane to those who have never experienced one before. Local and state governments could use it to post information, such as mandatory evacuation areas.
There's a ton of benefit to this, mostly informing people on the things they need to know that they may not even know they need to know.
And there are other benefits as well, such as constituents being able to better monitor the doings of their elected officials, and not just on the federal level - on the state and local level as well.
Something like this
WILL happen one day. It's inevitable because the internet revolution is inevitable. It's affected the entertainment industry. Now it's affecting the communication industry. And just like corporations have to accept the new reality so too will our government as well as its constituents.