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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by nytesky on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:45AM (#43571368)
I would argue a US mailing address is at least as complicated a structure, but people managed to figure out the state abbreviations and ZIP Codes fine. We just need to teach it in elementary school just like we do addresses.

Speaking of that I do wish the post office had a mail service where they issued addresses to citizens or something.

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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by kube-system on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:51PM (#43573788)
Yeah, I think digital literacy courses cover things like that, and they should.

But mailing addresses are actually extremely complicated and most people probably don't understand the full scope even of US mailing addresses. The spec is 226 pages.[0]

[0]: https://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/Pub28/pub28.pdf

If you've ever had an address with any complexities beyond what is taught in elementary school (number, street, city, state, zip), you'll probably experience issues with getting others to correctly address your mail. The biggest reason this isn't a problem is because the postal service takes significant effort to deliver misaddressed mail.

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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by koziserek on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:16PM (#43574818)
whoa, I just imagined a world where USPS, Deutche Post, etc - offer domains, servers, cloud services - as a natural extension of treir previous roles..
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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by kube-system on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:34PM (#43575736)
Some countries have digital mail services that are actually better than email because they include identify verification features

e.g. https://www.digipost.no/

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Re:Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on ... by 1718627440 on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:06AM (#43610864)
That used to be the case before the privatization in the 90s. What do you think the Deutsche Telekom is?
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