what if?

[snickerd3]

What if they started charging a small fee to send an email? Would you pay it? or Do you think people would go back to paper corerspondence and the US postal service start making money again?

 

[MA_PE]

I'd like to get a penny for every e-mail I get

 

[Master slacker]

Phones and free mobile-to-mobile calling would increase.

 

[Supe]

Prices on EVERYTHING would skyrocket, but it would have to be a pretty hefty fee to offset the time savings of electronic data transfer. Instant messaging/chat capabilities would also go through the roof.

 

[snickerd3]

I'd like to get a penny for every e-mail I get

yes but it could reduce the number of spam and junk email because that would make mass emailing expensive

 

[Supe]

I'd like to get a penny for every e-mail I get

Just set up a few junk accounts on some porn/spam rich site, and you can be an overnight millionaire!

 

[Road Guy]

Gmail already makes money on your email accounts

 

[Capt Worley PE]

There'd probably be riots.

 

[roadwreck]

I still get junk mail. I can't see email spam stopping completely if it remained financially viable.

 

[MA_PE]

We could write a program that took the fractions of a penny from each transaction and deposit them into an account we setup.

 

[roadwreck]

We could write a program that took the fractions of a penny from each transaction and deposit them into an account we setup.

who's in charge of the mundane details?

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I still get junk mail. I can't see email spam stopping completely if it remained financially viable.

I saw a report a few months ago that said that junk mail is the only reason the USPS is even still in operation.

 

[Supe]

I still get junk mail. I can't see email spam stopping completely if it remained financially viable.

I saw a report a few months ago that said that junk mail is the only reason the USPS is even still in operation.

I wonder how much they make per piece of mail at the bulk rate postage.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

We could write a program that took the fractions of a penny from each transaction and deposit them into an account we setup.

From the crippled children?

 

[udpolo15]

Maybe it is just me, but junk mail doesn't bother me all that much and it isn't such a huge burden on my productivity. Few junk emails make it through and I delete. Once a week, I go through an email from the spam filter with emails that got quarantined. I take a quick look and the very very few that mistakenly get classified as spam I click on and they get delivered. I would be surprised if over the course of my 10 year professional life, spam has cost me less than a few hours and that is being generous.