Someday, way far away in the future, after our bodies become a big jumble of bionic replacement parts and 178º is a cool day, people will think about their mailbox, or their Inbox and think…why box? They'll have no way of knowing there was once a time when people used processed wood and ink to communicate and those communications, which consisted of letters arranged into words, were sent in envelopes that were left in and taken out of a series of boxes and thus was our mail system. Hence the term mailbox, but you know…you can't tell children that sort of thing because they'll be bored to tears by the time you get into your second paragraph. No. You gotta do something to keep them interested. Keep them interested in mailboxes!!! Support the show

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