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Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by daniel_iversen »

throwaway13000 wrote: post #2

I don't understand one thing. The customers know that companies are here just to make money. Then why do they think the letter is coming from the heart? Why don't they think it is some marketing guy's ploy to extract little more value/money?

Sometimes you’ll build up long lasting, trusting and mutually beneficial relationships with some of your best “customers” (a person you do business with inside a company) you’ll even do business with these individuals across different companies. The times I’ve sent my customers something (be it a swag pack, bottle of drink or anything) it’s been really appreciated. A handwritten letter would be amazing! I did send a hand written thank you letter to a customer once (but the person is a good friend too so it didn’t count as much, although I thanked him for being a customer and wished him luck etc) and he was super excited and happy about getting a physical post card in such a digital age. It definitely is a good thing to do, and helps keep things human.

Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by stefanwlb »

I can understand this from a business point of view but not from a personal one. I can just imagine sending the letter to someone who is dear to you and have them say how precious it was and how beautiful the handwriting was only to tell them that you didn't actually write it, or mail it. I.e. the whole value of a personally written letter comes from the fact that you yourself wrote it and sent it. Otherwise you might as well emailed it

Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by zzo38computer »

Maybe some people with bad handwriting might find such service useful, or other reasons (what dugluak mentions is also a possibility; another possibility may be if you do not want to get all of the envelopes and stuff yourself). Sometimes people used to hire scribes to write stuff, so if that is what you want, then this service could do such thing, although it seem less being needing these days. Still, if anyone wants this service, now you have it; just because I don't like it doesn't mean that it is no good for anyone else either.

However, I think I do not need this; if I want a handwritten letter (for various reasons, including I am composing it while not at the computer, to include hand-written diagrams, or because I have the postal address to send it to, etc), I will do it by myself (I will still generally type the address on the envelope with a typewriter, though). If I wanted a copy of text from a computer I would probably use the printer (except that it seems to sometimes doesn't work on my computer, but sometimes it does work).

Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by elvecinodeabajo »

anthonylee wrote: post #5
throwaway13000 wrote: post #2

I don't understand one thing. The customers know that companies are here just to make money. Then why do they think the letter is coming from the heart? Why don't they think it is some marketing guy's ploy to extract little more value/money?

I see your point, I think from a different angel— it depends on your use cases and how much time you want to save.

You don't send handmade letters if you need to save time.

Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by nasmorn »

What everyone is really waiting for is when the Microsoft research voice changer is finally production ready and there will be a service to call whoever you want(parents/significant other) and just pretend to be interested in what they tell you. If scheduling comes up pretend to need to sync the calendar and if anything really hard surfaces feign a work call/ cell phone trouble. People will feels much more loved and suddenly nobody will get enough of your favorite stories. As not to denigrate anyone I will provide examples of these calls made to myself. I can already picture how good it would work on me.

Yes nasmorn, Tell me more about how increasing your weekly running mileage has made you feel sluggish. So you are using soy yogurt in your shakes now, how interesting.

Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by dinkleberg »

pojntfx wrote: post #16

This is ... so creepy. Humans as a Service, basically.

As opposed to monkeys as a service? All service businesses up until recently (and still most today) are literally selling the time of a human being to do something.

You want a toilet fixed, you call a plumbing service, which is a human as a service. Why is this creepier than the old-school scribes that would write what someone dictates?

Re: Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

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Post by throwaway13000 »

anthonylee wrote: post #10
throwaway13000 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind elaborating some of those use cases?

I can't answer if the receiver should feel as if the letter should be written from the heart or not... but I think some businesses are interested in sending nice handwritten letters. I see people in jewelry and fashion industries interested in sending these crafted handwritten letters to their clients as a thank you note, etc. It seems like they value their packaging. I am still learning why some of my clients are in…

I agree with the final conclusion. Thanks for answering
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