How far a woman can travel by herself?

Q: How far a woman can travel by herself? Since now a day everyone has driving license and this American society makes everyone travel a lot of miles every day. What if two or more women traveling together by themselves and if someone has a male non adult mehram with her, does that fulfill the requirement for all or all of them are supposed to have a mehram with them?

What should we do with TV's?

Q: I wanted to know what we should do with TV(s) we no longer want to keep in the house, alhumdulillah the usage of TV has reduced considerably in our house and I wanted to know can we sell the TV or do we need to break it and throw it away so no one else can use it, and we cannot be held accountable for others sins due to them watching the TV?

Male and Female conversing with one another via email before nikah

Q: 

  1. Is it permissible for a male and female to converse with one another via email before nikah is performed.
  2. If the couple is proposed and the girl talks to her future sister in law via e mail and she leaves a certain amount of text for the boy to read directly which he reads annnd replys directly to, is that halaal?
  3. Is it permissible if a third person reads the email/text message? If yes what requirments must the third person meet?

Nifaas

Q: After having a baby, you are on your periods for 40 days. Does that mean that its not allowed to read namaz for that time period?