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I had a long rant typed out here about the USPS, and their use of logins to do something as simple as print a label and buy postage for the package at the same time. The rant didn't read very well, and boiled down to this: YOU DON'T NEED ME TO COME UP WITH A UNIQUE LOGIN NAME. For years now I've put up with seemingly every website I attempt to use, buy something from, or in some way have to identify myself to, requiring me to come up with a unique login to use with their site. If the site is at all popular the two logins I use everywhere and can actually remember are probably already taken. We already have something that can uniquely identify someone, and these sites already require users to give it to them. What's that, you ask? Why it's an email address. You know what else is great about email addresses? They're globally unique. You already limit people from signing up with multiple accounts using the same email address, why make them come up with another unique string that they aren't going to remember? I've had it. I will no longer register at a site that doesn't use my email address to identify me, unless there's a good reason for it. I won't be able to remember my login, and likely your system for digging it up will not work. -Zach (Who ended up ranting anyway, but at least this time it's readable.)
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