Special Guest Author: Bailey, CEO, Bailey Security.
Because internal communication and e-mail security is so dear to my heart, I could sit here and discuss United's new e-mail service until the cows (even the ones with Foot and Mouth Disease) come home. Instead, I'll try and keep this article as short as possible!
United Airlines flight attendants are finally getting what other employees at the company have already had for a long time: a corporate e-mail address. Using the current most reliable form of communication, Onboard Service recently dropped a paper letter dated May 13, 2001 into your domicile mailboxes detailing the particulars of this new e-mail service.
You can read that letter for yourself, but basically this new e-mail system will allow you to have a free e-mail account with an address similar to mary.mainliner@ual.com.
Once you obtain this e-mail address, you can then check it from any computer connected to the internet. This is similar to other free services such as www.hotmail.com or the like. In fact, web-based e-mail is so common, easy-to-obtain, and simple to use that I considered offering all of you yourname@jumpseatnews.com. But then Christopher had to step in and insist that it would take time and resources away from his writing and posting articles on this goofy website.
Make no mistake about it, United intends on utilizing this new e-mail service to "allow you to receive important information about your job and the company including news about United, Onboard Updates and numerous other timely documents and publications." This is made clear in their May 13 letter.
The decision to sign up for United's free e-mail service is yours alone--and I won't attempt to swing you either way. Here are the pros and cons:
PROS
CONS
Ultimately the decision is yours. Thanks for listening!
Bailey
bailey@jumpseatnews.com.
Note: If you are using United's new e-mail system to write back to Bailey, your contents may be monitored as per the terms of the Official E-Mail Use Policy!