Patent ID: 8234341

Claim:
A method for replying to terrestrial mail over a computer network, the method comprising the steps: receiving a printed version of an original document that is a content enclosed in a package delivered by a terrestrial delivery service from a sender, the original document including original content and an identifier, the original content provided by the sender and the identifier provided by a remote server to the sender affixed to the printed version of the original document; connecting to a remote site via a recipient terminal coupled to the computer network, the remote site residing on the remote server coupled to the computer network; entering the identifier associated with the original document via the recipient terminal; and accessing an electronic version of the original document stored on the remote server using the identifier, wherein the electronic version of the original document includes the original content of the original document in electronically revisable form; creating a reply to the original document using the recipient terminal, wherein the reply includes at least a portion of the original content from the original document; and forwarding the reply to the sender of the original document wherein the forwarding step includes sending an e-mail message as the reply to the sender and having the electronic version of the original document as an attachment to the e-mail message.