Zipping on The USPOD

 I was blogging in 1968. We called it correspondence in those days because webs were something to be vacuumed away, portable computers required cranes to lift and email was just a typo of the feminine gender. But as the saying goes, "they can because they don't know any better". So I went ahead and blogged my way well into the 70s.

I had a list of people who read my blog entries. I had to push the information to them by writing the message over and over on this stuff called paper. Then I would encase each individual message in a non-virtual envelope and write the destination on IFSC codes finder the outside making sure to include a ZIP code in order to enhance the speed of delivery. Finally I would use a system run by a former branch of the U.S. Government (referred to as the Post Office Department) to transmit the message. I would cast my letter into a POD box that could be found on most any street corner and, as if by magic, my blog entry would race through the usPOD network and appear in the hands of my readers within days, even if that reader was hundreds of miles away.

Getting my readers to comment on or even acknowledge they had received my latest entry was not the easiest thing to do. Most were content to read my updates and only say something when they felt a new entry was long overdue.