44 years ago, the USPS program E-COM printed and delivered electronic messages
January 2, 2026 On Jan. 4, 1982, the Postal ServiceĀ introduced E-COM, an attempt to harness the dawning power of digital communications for postal ends. It worked like this: Business mailers transmitted messages to one or more of the 25 Post Offices in the program. The messages would be sorted by ZIP Code, printed out on … Read more