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by elsurudo 2247 days ago
New York and some other cities had such a thing over a hundred years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
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ghaff 2247 days ago
I'm actually guessing that, while fewer packages, there were probably more deliveries 100 years ago than there are today. A huge amount of shuffling paper around--see bicycle messengers--has been replaced with electronic transfers.
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Eric_WVGG 2247 days ago
ahh you beat me to it… "fax me a burrito"
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