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Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by __shedlife__ »

I'm the founder of http://handwrite.io, which allows you to use your own real handwriting to send out cards in about 30 seconds a card. Our robots use real pen and paper to write in your actual handwriting.

For every card, your handwriting is generated from scratch so it's unique every time and not a font like other services. And if you don't like how your writing looks, you can always use one from our selection.

We've got a Zapier integration which has been a game changer for us and clients as well.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by byproxy »

__shedlife__ wrote: post #61

I'm the founder of http://handwrite.io , which allows you to use your own real handwriting to send out cards in about 30 seconds a card. Our robots use real pen and paper to write in your actual handwriting. For every card, your handwriting is generated from scratch so it's unique every time and not a font like other services. And if you don't like how your writing looks, you can always use one from our selection. We…

Getting robots to handwrite letters using samples of real handwriting sounds pretty intense!

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by adamw2k »

So many companies have come and gone in the "print on demand" space. The barriers to entry are low and the market, while shrinking, is still quite large... If you consider the market those that send stationary (cards, letters, etc.). Having started a company in the space (engreet.com, since renamed https://www.thegreetingcardshop.com by its new owners), the fallacy is that most folks that send offline won't make the jump to digital. It's a different demographic that is slowly dying (sadly). From cardstore.com to Minted, there's still a market out there, but it's a fraction of the offline spend.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by kunle »

foobaw wrote: post #55

I've been using https://www.mailform.io/ . I see a lot more options on here. Which one is the best and why? To be honest, I just want the cheapest.

Thanks! Mailaletter.com is great, and we (Mailform) are a competitor. There's a few others you could check out:

click2mail.com

http://simplepostal.com

neopost.com

clicksend.com

papermail.in

letterstream.com

pingen.com

elipso.eu

postalmethods.com

sendovernightmail.com (also owned by us btw)

They're all pretty different along cost, features, delivery speed, etc. Cheapest probably depends how you define it (mailaletter is one of the cheapest if you're sending a single letter, click2mail is probably the cheapest if you're sending multiple, etc)

here to help, team@mailform.io :)

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by giornogiovanna »

jasonkester wrote: post #28
billyhoffman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/ The attitude of "it's cool, only use SSL for the sensitive parts" hasn't been true for a decade.

Again, that looks like it needs to be sitting somewhere between the end user and the webserver. I don't disagree that it is possible to mess with http traffic in flight if it's not encrypted. I do disagree that a) there are bad guys between me and the http://catpictures.com right now and b) They have targeted me with malicious cat pictures that will cause damage somehow. My sites that allow logins are all https only.…

The bad guy could be your evil sister on your home network. It could be anyone in your university. What if they replaced the like button under your cat photo with a like button for something evil? Or what if they put their own ads and tracking scripts into the page to make themselves some money? Lots of ISPs already do that on HTTP pages, so it's not just a hypothetical.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by timcederman »

matt-attack wrote: post #32
megakid wrote: post #5

I used a service similar to this in 2011 after I moved back from Australia to UK. Australian banks charge a monthly fee if you don't deposit your salary into the account so after a few months I realized my now-defunct Australian current account was very close to $0 (I had left a few dollars in there when I left). I emailed them and asked them to close the account to which they replied I needed to send a snail-mail le…

I wonder if it was just the scanned signature, or was it something else about the service you used that made the physical letter look untrustworthy.

Scanned signature for sure. I once had a form rejected by the Australian equivalent of the DMV for it "appearing to have different handwriting in places", and another time a bank rejected a form for the signature being in a different colour ink to the rest of the form.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by austinkhale »

__shedlife__ wrote: post #61

I'm the founder of http://handwrite.io , which allows you to use your own real handwriting to send out cards in about 30 seconds a card. Our robots use real pen and paper to write in your actual handwriting. For every card, your handwriting is generated from scratch so it's unique every time and not a font like other services. And if you don't like how your writing looks, you can always use one from our selection. We…

I'm the CTO at Realeflow, CRM & Marketing SaaS app for real estate investors. Any chance you could email me (email in bio)? There isn't any contact information on your site.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by msla »

jasonkester wrote: post #28
billyhoffman wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/ The attitude of "it's cool, only use SSL for the sensitive parts" hasn't been true for a decade.

Again, that looks like it needs to be sitting somewhere between the end user and the webserver. I don't disagree that it is possible to mess with http traffic in flight if it's not encrypted. I do disagree that a) there are bad guys between me and the http://catpictures.com right now and b) They have targeted me with malicious cat pictures that will cause damage somehow. My sites that allow logins are all https only.…

It isn't about cat pictures, it's about sending a message.

The message we need to send is that Internet traffic is private and encrypted by default. You don't "turn on" encryption only when you're doing something which needs to be hidden any more than you only use envelopes when you're mailing something which needs to be hidden.

Your letters to grandma are in envelopes, not because your correspondence with her is "interesting" in any real sense, but because letters in envelopes are the default. It's a social expectation, in other words, and we need to import that expectation to the Internet to the greatest extent possible, because the Internet is the new mail system, information hub, and everything else.

Plus, I really don't want to give my ISP any foothold to insert advertising.

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