In Germany - where the bureaucracy is massive and mostly paper based - Deutsche Post the national postal company runs a similar service (https://epost.de). Works both ways, you can send and receive paper-and-envelope letters in digital form. The user interface is surprisingly modern and they do use https;) It even includes a DropBox-like storage space for your documents.
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This is interesting. In the US, my 'signature' is always a picture or a doodle, sometimes I write famous people's names in sloppy cursive. If it was like an important contract or something, I might try a bit harder... but to be honest I don't truly have a 'signature', I can either write my name in my terrible handwriting, or not.
> If it was like an important contract or something, I might try a bit harder.
When I was sworn in as an attorney, they had us sign a book in the courthouse as part of the ceremony. They said that sometimes people used a fancy signature since it was a special occasion, and explicitly told us not to do that since they would sometimes be asked to compare a purported signature to one in the book.
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#83Too bad there's not a postcard option...
I started this as a side project a while back and use it for sending postcards to friends and family: https://postcards.foundry.sh/
It runs on Lob, pretty much at cost (I don't really make money off of it, but it also doesn't cost me much money either).
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#84I'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 was a customer of one of your competitors (bond.co) who just recently shut down operations, though I'm not sure why. Would love it if there was an API integration, so that I could automate the delivery of handwritten cards. Do you have anything like in the works?
Bond was actually the inspiration!
We have an outward facing API that's happening within the next couple of months, but we already have a simple API that we use internally and would love to have you join on - email me at dan@handwrite.io
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#85I'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.
Hmm, can't see your email or your bio for some reason. Email me at dan@handwrite.io?
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#86For the fastest payment service, Mail A Letter provides customers with a MailBank. Add funds to your MailBank with a VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Discover credit card or PayPal. Payment from each order will be deducted from your account automatically and you can avoid entering in your payment information for each order. You can add any amount (minimum $5.00).
Uh huh, and i bet the money in said "money bank" is not refundable, so really it is $5 minimum
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#87I 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 thought about using similar services, but the hassle of signing up and paying meant I just bought some international stamps.
A letter from the UK to Australia costs £1.35, or £1.20 for "economy".
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
pretty meaningless when you can MITM the page and remove https from all the links
Can you? Please demonstrate. This is one of the silliest arguments that comes up every time "SSL All The Things!" is discussed. The "you" in your story has to be both a Bad Guy and your ISP, and needs to come up with a way to sabotage a site that shows you cat pictures in such a way that it shows malicious cat pictures that somehow do anybody any harm. So yeah, please MITM this site for us real quick so we can see al…
Have you ever used a public wifi connection? It’s not “your ISP” it’s any random stranger on the same network.
If you really don’t believe this stuff happens, I’d suggest connecting to one of the many public wifi offerings in las vegas during Defcon.
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#89I'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…
This is really cool. Have you thought of doing on-demand pricing? I'd send a few cards, but I don't want to pay $30 a month for a service I might only use intermittently.
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#90I created http://simplepostal.com a year and a half ago. Just never knew how to get it on top of hacker news :)
We made https://mailprincess.com a while back too. and http://maleprincess.com too
It lets you send letters, postcards, checks and faxes
Wound up having a decent number of users at some point, but then people started abusing the check sending features. We took it down and built some anti-fraud stuff, but never did anything to acquire users again. It does continue to work perfectly well though.
It's interesting that so many products like these exist in spaces that will probably never be huge and so there's no major VC funded player that may kill them all.