Another drawback of electronic mail is that it could increase our unemployment rate. If electronic mail becomes a norm among everyone, there would be almost no need for telephone companies or the postal service. There is a post office and a telephone company in almost every town and shutting them down would put many people out of work. E-commerce businesses would probably be located only in the bigger cities of the world. There is no way that having an e-commerce business in just a few cites is going to be able to employ as many people as having a telephone company and a postal service in almost every town.
Electronic mail is much more expensive to use then people realize.
Electronic mail requires the use of a computer, and many families cannot afford to buy one. It is a lot cheaper to buy a stamp whenever you need to send a letter than to buy and maintain a computer. You also need to have the Internet to use electronic mail, and that cost almost as much as the phone bill does. A computer is outdated about every five years, but that is something you will not have to worry about at the post office or the phone company. As you can see, electronic mail has many disadvantages.