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[DRAFT] Local Mails in Your Area

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Eshialand
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[DRAFT] Local Mails in Your Area

Postby Eshialand » Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:12 pm

This is my first attempt at writing an issue in a long long time, so please forgive me f it's a little rough around the edges. I was inspired by the community mailboxes we have here in Canada, where a lot, if not most of us, aren't getting mail delivered to our homes anymore. The title is tentative, and I'd be open to better suggestions for it.

Local Mails in Your Area

Description: Following a recent change to mail delivery in Brancaland, postal workers cross the country are clamoring for @@NAME@@ to follow in their footsteps, by implementing a system of "community mailboxes", where whole neighborhoods share a mailbox instead of each house having its own, in every city in @@NAME@@.

Option 1: "Every day, I have to go to thousands of houses and walk up to their porches, only to send them junk mail they won't even open..." complains @@RANDOMNAME@@, a disgruntled mail carrier in @@CAPITAL@@. "Do you know exhausting that is? Community mailboxes would save so much time and energy. I'd never even have to leave the van! Think of my -- er, the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Mail Service's -- legs!"
Effect: the nation's pets yearn for the days when they had mail carriers to chase.

Option 2: "Think of @@HIS@@ legs?" asks @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of @@CAPITAL@@'s elderly residents. "Why should I have to walk multiple blocks in horrible storms to check my mail? At least @@HE@@ gets paid to walk around town in that stupid little outfit! My mailbox works perfectly fine, why can't I keep using it?"
Effect: neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night will prevent @@NAME@@'s postal workers from hating their jobs.

Option 3 (must have internet): "Say, why do we even have physical mail anyway?" asks your tech-savvy cousin, part-way through a game of @@ANIMAL_PLURAL@@ Vs Skeletons. "Paper mail is like, sooooo 150 years ago. Can't we just use the internet? After all, pretty much everyone has a computer anyway."
Effect: grannies across the country struggle to figure out how to open their e-birthday cards.

Option 4 (must not have internet): "Say, why do we even have physical mail anyway?" asks your cousin, still missing the days when he could go online. "We could get by just fine with computers and never have to deal with that pesky paper ever again! All you'd have to do is loosen those silly internet laws and give us access to the information superhighway! Do you want to be a part of the future?"
Effect: news of the internet's return struggles to reach citizens who don't have internet to read it on.


Description: Following a recent change to mail delivery in Brancaland, postal workers cross the country are clamoring for @@NAME@@ to follow in their footsteps, by implementing a system of "community mailboxes" in every city in @@NAME@@.

Option 1: "Every day, I have to go to thousands of houses and walk up to their porches, only to send them junk mail they won't even open..." complains @@RANDOMNAME@@, a disgruntled mail carrier in @@CAPITAL@@. "Do you know exhausting that is? It would be so much easier if I could just drive up to one mailbox by the side of the street, deliver an entire neighborhood's mail right there, and drive to the next mailbox. Think of my -- er, the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Mail Service's -- legs!"
Effect: the nation's pets yearn for the days when they had mail carriers to chase.

Option 2: "Think of @@HIS@@ legs?" asks @@RANDOMNAME@@, one of @@CAPITAL@@'s elderly residents. "Why should I have to work multiple blocks in horrible storms to check my mail? At least @@HE@@ gets paid to walk around town in that stupid little outfit! My mailbox works perfectly fine, why can't I keep using it?"
Effect: neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night will prevent @@NAME@@'s postal workers from hating their jobs.

Option 3 (must have internet): "Say, why do we even have physical mail anyway?" asks your tech-savvy cousin, part-way through a game of @@ANIMAL_PLURAL@@ Vs Skeletons. "Paper mail is like, sooooo 150 years ago. Can't we just email everything? After all, pretty much everyone has a computer anyway."
Effect: grannies across the country struggle to figure out how to open their e-birthday cards.

Option 4 (must not have internet): "Say, why do we even have physical mail anyway?" asks your cousin, still missing the days when @@HE@@ could go online. "We could get by just fine with email and never have to deal with that pesky paper ever again! All you'd have to do is loosen those silly internet laws and give us access to the information superhighway! Do you want to be a part of the future?"
Effect: news of the internet's return struggles to reach citizens who don't have internet to read it on.
Last edited by Eshialand on Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:47 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Postby Ko-oren » Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:26 pm

Good start! Couple of thoughts:
- the explanation of 'community mailbox' belongs in the description, not in the options, and then the mail carrier can talk about the benefits/ramifications rather than explain it.
- option 2 has 'work' instead of 'walk', I think?
- option 3: from an IC point of view, would a young person talk about email and computers or notifications on phones? I want to believe I'm still in the age bracket where I can talk on their behalf but...
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Postby Eshialand » Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:47 pm

Ko-oren wrote:Good start! Couple of thoughts:
- the explanation of 'community mailbox' belongs in the description, not in the options, and then the mail carrier can talk about the benefits/ramifications rather than explain it.

Good point, I've rewritten option 1 to focus more on this.
- option 2 has 'work' instead of 'walk', I think?

*facepalms* dang it.
- option 3: from an IC point of view, would a young person talk about email and computers or notifications on phones? I want to believe I'm still in the age bracket where I can talk on their behalf but...

Yeah, good point. I've reframed the cousin's comment to be more about the internet in general since "pretty much everyone has a phone anyway" wouldn't really be true and combining phone and computer in that option wouldn't work well. I've left option 4 about email since the cousin is less tech-savvy in that one owing to the lack of internet in the country.

Also since I never used a random name for the cousin in option 4, having a @@HE@@ there doesn't really make much sense? So I've just made it a normal he.
Last edited by Eshialand on Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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