Advantages:
- Emails can be sent to one person or multiple people at a time. This gives it an advantage over writing a letter because you don't have to write the same letter again to send to multiple people unless you photocopy it. Even then emails allows a smoother process of sending emails to multiple people. This because it saves a lot of time because all you have to do after writing an email is that add the recipients email addresses into the “to” box and you're ready to go.[1]
- Sending an email is considerably cheaper than writing a letter because when you send a letter you need to buy an envelope and stamp(prices depend on the type service required) then you can send it. Whereas writing an email is a paperless transaction of communication. Meaning that it would contribute to global warming as paper wouldn't be wasted. The more letters people write, deforestation increases.[2]
- E-mails are delivered faster than traditional posts.Emails are infact instant whereas for a letter to be delivered it will take at least one day and it still not guaranteed to be delivered on time. Emails normally don't take more than a minute to be delivered. This makes e-mail more useful than writing a letter because if you have to send something to someone and you are short of time then email is best way to send it.
- You can send an email to anyone and anywhere in the world as longs as you have the email address taking in note that they must have an email account and secure and stable internet connection. This is a good thing because sometimes sending a letter abroad can take longer than 5 days compared to sending an email which is almost instant. Emails also give the user the freedom to communicate with literally anyone they wish to communicate with.
- You can send things other writing: multimedia such as pictures, videos, music files or most other files through email as long as the file size is within the limit of the email service provider. This is a good thing because you cannot send such things whilst writing a letter. It also allows you to send multiple multimedia files.
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