Email and Postal Serivce, Similarities and Differences

This will be a brief explanation of the comparison of email and the postal service. Frankly I think the postal service should be eliminated and it should all be privatized but hey that's just me.

Similarities: 

• Both need an address to get to where they are going. 
• Both go through a postal service in some degree. 
• Both have a mailbox.
• Both have to stop along the way at several different destinations.
• Both include a sorting system that determine where the next stop will be. 
• There all laws in which both systems have to follow.
• Both get solicited by advertisements

Differences: 

• Email is electronic, while postal is a physical letter/package.
• You can't send things like a package through email, but you can through postal.
• Email addresses aren't a physical location while a postal address is
• A postal address can be a little off but an email address has to be exactly precise.
• Email doesn't need stamps and is pretty much free.
• Postal mail can take several days or weeks or even months.
• Email is almost instant.