Just yesterday I went to the post office and used an APC (marvelous devices, really) to submit to a magazine that still only accepts subs via mail.
Then, this morning, I read this:
http://gizmodo.com/5837512/the-post-office-is-dying-because-we-dont-need-it-anymoreI suppose the author has some good points -- I don't mail
anything except submissions (and the occasional birthday card, because my family for some reason still believes in them). But what's going to happen to all these mags that still only take subs by mail?
I went to Staples a couple of weeks ago to make some copies and mail a DVD to a friend. The cost for FedEx or UPS, I forgot which they had at that location, would've been $9. At the APC I sent it for $1.50. It's nice to have that cheaper option.
I imagine if USPS shuts down, FedEx and UPS (and maybe DHL) will have a cheaper option for mailing stuff. I mean, my mother-in-law has to order from catalogs
somehow.
But I'm hoping that all these postal-mail-only-for-submissions publications will start doing online. Because, really, do we need to be wasting 50 sheets of paper to send something to a magazine that will probably say no? Especially if that magazine is on another
continent? *coughinterzonecough*
Something to think about.