Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for February 04, 2025

Don’t worry, Zoe, there will always be ‘snail mail’. There are lots of people like me, who like to send happy birthday cards to nice kids like you guys…

No it won’t. Somethings absolutely must be sent through snail mail.

a union mailman?

Hammie, have you given any thought to becoming a carrier pigeon?

Mail might go, but parcels will be with us for the foreseeable future.

AI’s coming for you, Hammie!

Snail mail is unlikely to ever go extinct. Daily mail, however, may.

BRILLIANT❗❗

and he even made Zoe “high-five her own face”

(>⯋⁠<)

…and Zoe can be a femail man…

A spammer, in other words. Lots of other words.

Emailman is more like a garbage truck driver. You back up to eveyones mail box and dump your whole stinky load of junkmail in their box. Then speed off to get the next load. Ooo the circle of life for the emailman.

I’ve heard of “hitting your head against a brick wall” before but never “hitting your head on the floor” Think of all the germs ‘Miss Sanitary’ is kissing up to!

Zoe, in case you didn’t know it, there is big money in running an e-mail server.

Too late. Most organizations moved to internet or cloud based mail systems instead of maintaining network infrastructure in house.

It’s really tough nowadays getting a job as “the email man”

Good choise to choose an it-education, focusing on network administration, fx DNS manager, handling the MX-records for email.

As I recall, Baby Blues has never acknowledged National days, like Blondie often does. Today it is Thank a mailman-day!

hTtps://www.nationaldaycalendar.cOm/national-day/national-thank-a-mailman-day-february-4

Head over to Blondie and another mail man-strip. htTps://www.arcamax.cOm/thefunnies/blondie/s-3578445

That sounds like a great idea Hammie! Make sure you get good benefits!

Learn a trade, like a typewriter repair technician.

@grasdal – THUD!

what actually happened here is, Hammie’s logic (or lack thereof) was so painful, Zoey fainted….

Telecommunications may be the end of letter-writing, and online banking, direct deposit, and auto-withdrawal may be the end of bills. But ecommerce displacing brick and mortar retail is only going to get bigger.

Or if it doesn’t, it will be because something’s gone badly wrong with the Internet—in which case the other two will make a comeback.

I hate using email. It never, ever goes away. That means, what I write today, someone in the future is going to read it. And, I don’t want anyone to know what I write to my beautiful wife. I especially don’t want my kids to read what I have written, until I am long gone. That is why I correspond with regular mail. Besides, regular mail is protected by federal law and really enforced. If someone hacks into your email, you have no real recourse. And they can send it to people that you don’t want knowing.

But, hey, all you teenagers just go right ahead and use your emails. It makes me money to defend you in court.

AKA a Spammer.

The U.S. Postal Service is on the list for elimination by the current administration. If you are not technologically savvy, you’ll be left in the wilderness.

We still get snail mail, we also mail by snail mail, only we take are snail mail to Post Office.

Oh dear, I do hope they allow Hammie to start showing signs of intelligence.

Good face plant Zoe.

WHAT? Who’s going to deliver my newspaper?

We’ve had email for many years, yet the postal service still exists.

Amazing how he suddenly grows teeth