The Differences Between Mail And Email

Mail is also known as postal mail or snail mail because it takes such a long time to transport and deliver to the recipients. Basically, mail is a hard copy piece of communication which is placed inside an envelope. In the middle front of the envelope is where name and address of whom you wish to read the message placed. The address is included with information about apartment or house number, street name, city, state or province and the zip or postal code. In the upper left corner of the envelopes is the return address (your address) in case if there is any delivery mistakes or wrong sending address, the mail will be sent back to you for free. Also, in the upper right corner of the envelope is where the stamp is placed. You can find the stamps at any post office and it’s required for a mail to be sent. After getting all things done, drop your mail at your mailbox or in a blue collection box or you can also take it to the post office; postal mail will be collected and sent to the physical address (home, office, school, etc) on the envelope. The mail will be handled many times and it will take an average of one week or more before it gets to the recipient. On the other hand, email is more convenient in some way, Email is short for “Electronic Mail” which is the same as a letter that being send through the Internet. If the mail address is the physical address of the receiver, with email address it is different. It is shorter and more secure because it unique to the user and it requires password to access to the mail box. To send an email, you have to open the email platform like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc and compose a letter or an email. Unlike mail, you don’t need an envelope to write down your return and deliver addresses, instead, you can type the recipient’s email address (name@something.com) in the “To” box. Email is very convenient because it allows you to include someone else in your letter by CC or BCC them. CC is short of “Carbon Copy” while BCC is known as “Blind Carbon Copy” which makes your mailing list becomes more confidential if you need to send the same email to many different recipients. Then below it, add the Subject of the email in order to let the receiver know about the topic of the email. Compose and click the ‘Send’ button at the bottom of the page then you are all done. Email is different from mail because it’s quicker, more secure, lower cost and especially it can be sent to more than one recipient at the same time. Even though, postal mail is still very important because it has been existing for really long time, since 2400 BC. However, it is undeniable that technology has brought us new advantages of email today which is much simpler, faster and easier to use.