I am one of the founders of Guam's first ISP, back in '93. We used the domain guam.net.
One day a letter arrived from England with only an email address on the front. There was no delivery address. Not even a name. Just an email address.
We were a bit puzzled, but it was pretty clear that the UK (or where ever it was) postal system recognized that Guam was a U.S. territory and sent it to the U.S. The U.S. postal system sent it to the main post office on Guam. Since Guam is a small place, the local postal people were familiar with "guam.net" and knew where our office was, and delivered it to us.
Since we, the ISP, knew the customer (in our database), we called him up and said he had a letter. He came by and picked it up. He was as amazed as we were.
I am one of the founders of Guam's first ISP, back in '93. We used the domain guam.net.
One day a letter arrived from England with only an email address on the front. There was no delivery address. Not even a name. Just an email address.
We were a bit puzzled, but it was pretty clear that the UK (or where ever it was) postal system recognized that Guam was a U.S. territory and sent it to the U.S. The U.S. postal system sent it to the main post office on Guam. Since Guam is a small place, the local postal people were familiar with "guam.net" and knew where our office was, and delivered it to us.
Since we, the ISP, knew the customer (in our database), we called him up and said he had a letter. He came by and picked it up. He was as amazed as we were.