When Do I Use Email?

I use various forms of email quite a lot in my every day life. One of the main reasons I use it for is to send school work to my dad's work to print it off. This is because our printer at home isn't very good and his company has really high quality printers so they are good for big pictures, colour etc. My email account is sent an email of confirmation every time I purchase something on the web such as on www.amazon.co.uk and www.ticketmaster.co.uk. You can also request an email from 'amazon' to track where your goods are.

The only disadvantages about using email I can think of is the time lapse and the need for access to a computer. By time lapse I mean that say you send an email at 4.30, the email may not arrive immediately and could arrive about half an hour later. This is a problem when I send my Dad work to print at his work becasue if it is a Friday and I need the work for Monday and send it at 4.30, he may come home for 5 and not have recieved the email. This would mean that I would have to find another source to print the work to a good standard.

Email is very good for sending word proccessed documents and internet files etc across the web because it will arrive exactly how you sent it in its original form. This is why I can send my Dad documents to print at work because instead of having to tell him what to print through the telephone etc, I can tell him in the email and attach the specified file.