Originally Posted by fred

There is a diference between email and snail mail.

If you buy a stamp, and post a letter, you (the sender) is paying for a service.

If you send an email, you are not. Also, they won't be deleting emails. They will be refusing to receive them, they will be bounced back to the sender.

To use your analogy, this is the equivelent of an address no longer existing (house demolished, adressee gone away etc), and royal mail returning the letter as undeliverable.