POSTOFFICE

The mail sorter woke up and felt the smooth hum of its Central Processing Unit swing to life. She prepared the radial belts for the day’s engagement, and mentally checked the programming, aligning the encyclopaedic database of postal codes with all the newly acquired information in the inbox. She chuckled quietly, thinking about the network of virtual information delivery she relied upon to ensure her part of the snail mail system remained error-free. It had been error-free since 2001. She sported the sticker that advertised that fact proudly, right above her LCD readout screen