The End: Goodbye to the mail carrier
After centuries of strikes, slights and provincial squabbles, electronic mail spelled his death
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Rosemary Counter
Rosemary Counter is a Toronto-based writer and journalist whose reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest and many more. She’s currently writing columns at The Globe and Mail, Report on Business and Zoomer magazine. Find her at www.rosemarycounter.com.
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