The Similarities and Differences Between Mail and Email

I have been using both email and mail my whole life even to this day. I use mail today because I send very personal letters to my Step-Dad who has been in prison since 2009 and will be released in 2018. I have been writing to him for eight years now and writing letters is therapeutic and organic where one can feel every word being written. I can't send emails to my Step-Dad because he does not have the privilege to use technology while in prison. One difference between both mail and email is the time being delivered where mail can take at least a few days where email takes seconds to deliver. Writing letters has been used for a very long time where penmanship, history, and time is recorded. Yet documents can get lost like paper because of how natural causes can affect the loss, damage, and displacement. Mail can completely disappear whereas email is recorded and it will most likely not get lost because it can be found in the networks, files, internet, and software. Even if one tries to dispose of emails to the garbage one can still retrieve them from the garbage because we can now control our email and settings. Emails can be used as evidence when needed and so can mail, but like I said what if it gets lost, sometimes mail doesn't even have the chance to land in its destination because of accidents into processing to different mail carriers. Not to mention how post offices are not the only ones delivering if not other companies like UPS and FEDEX where these companies can deliver all types of delivery yet there are restrictions such as weapons, liquids, or other harmful objects. As for email, one can send all types of email like pictures, files, download, and much more. One can even send scams and viruses that can harm one's computer intrude privacy and other personal information. Mail costs money to cause harm to people in various ways where email is free most of the time where one only needs access to wifi or internet where it is free and accessible as well in many places.