{"id":1169,"date":"2004-04-18T00:57:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/postal_service_mocks_gmail.html"},"modified":"2004-04-18T00:57:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T00:57:54","slug":"postal_service_mocks_gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/postal_service_mocks_gmail.html","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Mocks Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, my roommate wrote a mock USPS launch announcement to highlight why Gmail might seem foreign to those who view their email as a metaphor for the real thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ungrok.org\/blog\/archives\/000121.html\">The United States Postal Service has announced the launch of an automated service that ensures its customers receive advertising material directly related to their interests. No more junk mail!<\/p>\n<p>Now the advertisements you receive free each day &#8212; courtesy of the trusted USPS &#8212; will be automatically selected to match keywords found in your correspondences. And it&#8217;s all privacy-friendly!<\/p>\n<p>Newly installed robots will open every letter handled by the USPS, read its contents, reseal the envelope, and send the recipient &#8212; free of charge &#8212; third-party material describing goods and services directly related to the scanned content of the letter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;(cont&#8217;d)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, my roommate wrote a mock USPS launch announcement to highlight why Gmail might seem foreign to those who view their email as a metaphor for the real thing: The United States Postal Service has announced the launch of an automated service that ensures its customers receive advertising material directly related to their interests. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}