In our grim meathook dystopian future after all nation-states have collapsed and multinational corporations rule all, the infrastructure will be maintained entirely by UPS and FedEx (or whichever delivery service wins the Global Delivery Service Nuclear War.)
When the nukes come raining down, the very last vestige of the U.S. federal government will be the USPS.
- Victor Ganata
Wasn't Kevin Costner a postman in some post-apocalyptic movie? Maybe WATERWORLD?
- Andrew C (✔)
:D Indeed he was. In The Man Who Brings The Mail, or something like that
- Pete's Got To Go
… d'oh
- Andrew C (✔)
Who knew David Brin had anticipated Amazon Prime in 1985? :D
- Victor Ganata
The first thing I thought of was Idiocracy... Dystopian future, corporations rule...
- Brian Johns
You mean The Postman, based on David Brin's novel? http://www.imdb.com/title...
- walt crawford
"Snow crash", by Neal Stephenson - Mafia owns/runs the pizza delivery industry, executes delivery people if the order isn't delivered in 30 mins or less. :)
- Ken Gidley
LOL, I forgot that part. "30 minutes or else!"
- Victor Ganata