In 2006 an online gaming portal got so successful and gained so many members that they started a webmail service. They called it Rocketmail. To publicize it they ran newspaper ads and several video commercials showing the same affable but inefficient postal worker in different settings, strapping himself to a rocket to get around and deliver the mail. The videos were briefly very popular but the company voluntarily withdrew the campaign because the union representing real postal workers complained that it reflected badly on their members! A friend of mine worked for the production company that made the videos. The last one was of the rocketeering mailman, his wings presumably clipped, strumming a guitar and singing a sad farewell.

Imagine the smuggling possibilities!

That’s okay . . no one likes to hear anything from Toronto anyway

Great! At last a real use for The Strategic Defense Initiative–Junk Mail defense. Now, thats my tax dollars well spent!

Oh, and Damn Interesting article. And fascinating links. Keep up the good work.

Just imagine… I go to a restaurant with the most fantastic French porkchop drizzled in an exqusite pear and wine sauce. Instead of merely telling my friends about it with rocket mail and a few ice packs I can order an extra to go and send it to my friends instead.

Charlie Trotter and all of the specialty chefs here in Chicago could rocket mail their most delictable specialties to China and all over the world. If this were possible perhaps Chicago could lose its designation as the fattest city in the United States (we beat out Houston last year).