12, uh 10..uh...EIGHT things vanished in the past decade?

The Huffington Post has a list of a dozen things they say have gone away in the past decade. I beg to differ.

• They say sales catalogues are gone. Sorry, but I received more catalogues this year than ever! Tons of them every day starting before Thanksgiving and finally ending about a week before Christmas. This photo shows just one day's haul in November. Poor mail deliverer!

• HufPo says the yellow pages are gone. Not so! There are way too many programs lurking on the net to grab you when you look for almost anything, especially a business name or address or phone number. Give me the trusty old phone book anyday.
• And they say handwritten letters are gone too. That's largly true...and between them and the catalogues, the U.S. Post Office may be on the list of obsolete things for the next decade. But there is a great opportunity here. Want your job application to stand out? Include a handwritten note...presuming your handwriting is legible!  I remember interviewing the Birmingham Postmaster General on radio in the 80's and he expressed confidence that the new "electronic mail" would have no serious impact on regular mail operations. Right. 

     Even more interesting might be a prediction of things that may be gone when 2020 rolls around. A few guesses:

1. Evening Network TV Newscasts, maybe local too.                               

2. Most printed daily newspapers. 
3. AM radio.
4. Taxpayer funding for party primary elections.
5. North Korea.
6. Six or even five-day-a-week mail delivery.
7. Social Security.
8. Blogs. 
9. Yearly physical meetings of the Alabama Legislature.
10. $3.50 cups of coffee. They'll be replaced by $9.50 cups.