Snail mail

Snail mail used to be called postal deliveries, which were significantly higher than the average delivery time. Today the term is in English ( snail mail ) is sometimes used because of the uneven transmission speed for each traditional letter mail in comparison to e-mail.

The term comes from the stagecoach days when could provide, for example, a Radbruch, or a change in the weather for considerable delay and still stands today pictorially for slow transport, even for lengthy and extremely delayed mail delivery.

A children's song from the German Empire (1871-1918) for example, contains the verse:

Ri -ra- slip We travel on the coach We take the snail mail where it kost a penny ' Ri -ra- slip We travel on the coach

Children's picture books from the 1930s often show a screw that brings the animals of the forest post.

However, special attention was paid to the concept Snailmail in the 1980s and 1990s within the private networked computer systems via telephone modem, which used the world spun FidoNet. The public use of the Internet at that time was not yet widespread (see: Chronology of the Internet ).

The transmission of electronic messages in near real time, as the Internet is now possible with the help of e- mails, you did not know. Rather, the first electronic messages via the FidoNet by users as a so- called Snailmail were sent, even if the official term netmail or echo mail would have been. However, since it usually took several days, until the electronic message actually reached the recipient about the privately operated computer systems (zones and nodes), the term Snailmail had anchored for the sending of messages among users in the global FidoNet.

As mail in English can mean both e- mail and postal mail, a distinction is usually between e-mail and regular mail or snail mail (also s -mail ), so mail.