FedEx Thinks People Still Send Letters – Like, Through the Mailbox

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We really want to like these witty little ads for FedEx Express, in which people send urgent messages via this most zippy version of traditional mail, but we can’t stop thinking, “Um, isn’t this what email and the Crackberry are for?”

It’s a little late in the game to improve on snail mail correspondence. Sending over a still-cold beer might be a different story.

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