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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
A company wants to send you a bill, they send the bill, electronically and encrypted, to you through the electronic USPS. The USPS accepts the mail, insures its delivery (via you having to certify its delivery electronically), and it would only cost a penny. That choice of going electronic - which granted not everyone will have, will save the consumer money (since the costs are passed on to you) and will save the biller money. Sure they could just email it to you, but then they can't show you got it. Return reciept? Pfft, my kid opened my email and clicked stuff, I never saw it. But logging into the USPS e-delivery service? No deniabilty there.
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IIRC, that's what Deutsche Post is working on right at the moment, though it's still in its initial phase. Called an e-Brief (or "e-letter"). I don't know how it works exactly, but in any case it's some form of encrypted email that isn't free of charge, but has all the advantages you've mentioned above. If you wish, you can send it through email, and the receiver gets a printed letter.