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Hybrid mail, the Glossary

Index Hybrid mail

Hybrid mail is mail that is delivered using a combination of electronic and physical delivery.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: E-COM, Email, Email forwarding, Envelope, Fax, Internet-related prefixes, Letter (message), Mail carrier, Mail forwarding, Message delivery agent, Message transfer agent, Online post office, Outsourcing, Postal history, Printer (publishing), Service provider, V-mail, Webmail, .post.

  2. Postal services
  3. Webmail

E-COM

E-COM, short for Electronic Computer Originated Mail, was a hybrid mail process used from 1982 to 1985 by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to print electronically originated mail, and deliver it in envelopes to customers within two days of transmission.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.

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Email forwarding

Email forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending a previously delivered email to an email address to one or more different email addresses. Hybrid mail and email forwarding are email.

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Envelope

An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin, flat material.

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Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.

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Internet-related prefixes such as e-, i-, cyber-, info-, techno- and net- are added to a wide range of existing words to describe new, Internet- or computer-related flavors of existing concepts, often electronic products and services that already have a non-electronic counterpart.

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Letter (message)

A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. Hybrid mail and letter (message) are letters (message).

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Mail carrier

A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), is an employee of a post office or postal service who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses.

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Mail forwarding

Post offices and other mail service providers typically offer a mail forwarding service, commonly known as hybrid mail or virtual post office box services, to redirect mail addressed to one location to another address – usually for a given period.

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Message delivery agent

A message delivery agent (MDA), or mail delivery agent, is a computer software component that is responsible for the delivery of e-mail messages to a local recipient's mailbox.

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Message transfer agent

Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

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Online post office

An online post office is a commercial mail receiving agency that implements the concept of hybrid mail, enabling conventional mail to become electronic, or electronic correspondence to be printed and mailed at a remote location. Hybrid mail and online post office are postal services.

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Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally, or in-house. Hybrid mail and Outsourcing are postal services.

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Postal history

Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems.

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Printer (publishing)

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.

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Service provider

A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations.

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V-mail

V-mail, short for Victory Mail, was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad.

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Webmail

Webmail (or web-based email) is an email service that can be accessed using a standard web browser.

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.post

.post is a sponsored top-level domain (STLD) available exclusively for the postal sector, and is secured by DNSSEC. Hybrid mail and .post are postal services.

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See also

Postal services

Webmail

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_mail

Also known as E-Mail Letter, EMail letter, L-Mail.