Letterboxes: A Different View To See The Oldest Mode Of Long-Distance Communication

Letters used to be the only mode of long-distance communications before the revolution of the telephone. Since the 19th century, this new mode of communication keeps on evolving and updating. These days we have reduced their size to fit in our pockets and do to perform different tasks. E-mails, SMS, WhatsApp and many other benefits of modern technologies have outcasted the letters. But, the letterboxes in Sydney and other Australian cities are not becoming obsolete. Especially in the sub-urban and remote areas letters are still the key method of long-distance communication. According to a survey conducted by the government in 2009, reports that 69% of Australians lived in major cities, 20% lived in inner regional areas, 9% in outer regional areas and 2.3% lived in remote or very remote areas (1.5% remote and 0.8% very remote). The mobile companies do not want to put their towers on the remote and very remote areas. As per as their calculation that will hurt their business as fewer people will utilise their network and they can face losses in those areas. The people living there have the only choice available for communication that is by letters. Government post offices are available at every pin code and the postal services officials are bound to serve the people by delivering every single documents and parcels on time to their recipients.

In recent times the incidents of hacking have been increased by a lot. An individual or group of criminals are remotely accessing others computers and stealing important and classified information. This situation is forcing people to write more by hand. The demand of letterboxes in Sydney and other cities are rapidly increasing. As the letters are being handwritten they are completely hacking proof. Letterboxes with higher grades of security are also hitting the market with high-tech updates.