Word: mailboxes
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...days, sending a thank-you note to Aunt Edna was as uncomplicated as she probably was. You wrote it, stuck a stamp on the envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. Off it went in a red-white-and-blue truck, and a couple of days later the friendly neighborhood mailman walked it--through rain, heat or gloom of night--right to Auntie's door...
...company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand FedEx the Postal Service's crown jewel: the exclusive, government-mandated right to open the mailbox at the end of every American driveway, known in the industry as "the last mile." For all their planes and trucks, none of the private carriers can match the USPS's ground-based delivery network...
Ultimately, however, the real beneficiary of a USPS-FedEx alliance will be the Memphis-based powerhouse. Besides gaining access to that "last mile" to Aunt Edna's mailbox, FedEx could leverage the arrangement by planting drop-off boxes in post-office lobbies. Even if government regulators limit the combination on antitrust grounds, FedEx is steaming ahead with other joint ventures, including a deal with the French postal agency La Poste. Fred Smith has already proved FedEx's global fortitude. Most analysts see his domestic strategy as a shrewd way to position his 29-year-old company for what many believe...
Barbara Tyler was so fed up with all the political ads blaring from her local TV stations that she switched to a satellite provider - but that didn't stop the flyers that are pouring through her Laingsburg, Mich., mailbox or the pollsters who keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa?St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt...
...years getting wireless providers and firms like Microsoft to sign up to the WAP standard. They had to. WAP was the only game in town at a time when the Net and cell-phone usage were exploding. Last month phone.com exploded too, shelling out $6 billion for mobile-mailbox giant software.com And since every piece of software on the Net will have to be rejiggered to conform to the WAP standard, Rossman still has a lot of work to do if he's going to distract cell-phone users from their jabbering...