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jd91365400445usps.com. I know, it's cumbersome and tough to rattle off from the top of your head! But it also is unique enough to minimize duplication problems. This would eliminate the need to change addresses when you change Internet Service Providers, but using e-mail services such as Bigfoot, Hotmail or Altavista mail provide a similar benefit.
It's no news that Americans are avid e-mailers. A new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that more than 90 million people have Internet access. Of those, about 84 million use e-mail regularly, while 16 million have used some sort of online banking service.
E-commerce gurus have mixed feelings postal e-mail proposal. "They're in catch-up mode," was a typical reaction. Several experts I talked to pointed out that
most people apt to use the service already have e-mail -- and that many of the rest probably wouldn't log on for the tracking service.
"As schemes go, this one isn't bad," said one representative of a Santa Monica, California-based technology research firm. "It absolutely makes sense -- the Postal Service's business, and expertise, is mail delivery, and e-mail is just another form of mail. If the USPS ignored this new mailing technology it would insure that it would become obsolete eventually. Any steps it can take to work within the new framework should help it survive."

Watsonville, Calif., -September 13, 2000- Aladdin Systems, the company that pioneered single-click compress and e-mail, is now providing PC users with StuffIt^TM 5.5, a new, more powerful and easy-to-use choice to compress files and manage archives for Internet transfers and backup safety.
Offering a better compression solution than the aged .zip standard, Aladdin Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aladdin Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: ALHI), today announced StuffIt 5.5 for Windows will ship on September 14, 2000. In cooperation with CNET Download.com, a 30-day trial version of StuffIt for Windows is exclusively available at (http://download.cnet.com) in the Utilities -- File Compression area.
StuffIt offers superior compression rates (StuffIt compresses archives up to 20-percent more than .zip), easy-to-use features, powerful Zip functionality, and a variety of cross-platform choices that make StuffIt the ideal utility for anyone who sends and receives e-mail attachments, works intensively with the Internet, international markets or multi-platform environments.
"PC users finally have a choice when it comes to compression," said Jonathan Kahn, CEO of Aladdin Systems. "Although StuffIt compresses files smaller than Zip so users can download files faster, we recognize that many PC users will still want to create Zip archives in some instances. With a multitude of expansion formats, StuffIt presents a solution that is more powerful and easier to use than any Zip utility."

StuffIt for Windows is comprised of four powerful, yet easy-to-use applications -- DropStuff(tm), DropZip(tm), Aladdin Expander(tm) and the StuffIt Browser(tm).
PC users will appreciate the extensive features seamlessly integrated within StuffIt. StuffIt 5.5 fully supports the creation and expansion of Zip archives, including segmented and self-extracting Zip files. Internet-savvy users can choose to natively compress and encode files in a variety of formats: .sit (the StuffIt format, the compression standard on the Macintosh platform), .zip, .cab, .tar/.gz, as well as Mime/Base64, and Uuencode

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