Comment Digital signatures will reduce post (Score 1) 297
Once society embraces a way to accept digital human signatures on a massive scale the need for posting items will diminish (changing peoples behaviour and mindset is a different story though).
An example: Like lots of people I use online banking. I decided to open an additional savings account with the *same* bank. Went through the process online in a few minutes. At the end of the process I had to wait for *5 days* for an aknowledgement to be posted to me so I could sign and return the form for the opening balance transfer.
I am already a customer with that bank and I had logged on securely like normal to go through the account opening process. Why did I have to do that?! Talk about backwards.