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Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by ThrustVectoring »

jwr wrote: post #96
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…

In Poland the law theoretically mandates that a digital signature is just as good as a pen-and-paper one. But, when dealing with banks, one quickly finds that the law is one thing and the stone wall of your bank is another. Here's how a typical discussion unrolls: Bank: "To do X or Y, we require you to visit us in person or provide a written statement". Me: "Here's my statement with a digital signature, attached as a…

regulatory complaints work wonders too

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by csomar »

__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…

Only monthly plans? Have you tried pay per card?

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by aiyodev »

xeromal wrote: post #44
charlieegan3 wrote: post #40

I've been looking the something that's kind of the opposite of this. I'd like to be able to use an address in my city for all my mail - when a letter arrives I'd like to get a scan as an email attachment. I usually get parcels delivered to amazon lockers or my office since I'm out all day.

There's plenty of those services. This one is recommended usually. https://travelingmailbox.com/ You'd have to live in a decently sized city to get an address in your town though. You can definitely get one in your state. UPS also has mail services. They don't scan, but if you're wanting to protect your address, it's a good option. They run about 200 a year in LA so maybe 130 or so somewhere smaller?

I love Traveling Mailbox. Been using it since I moved to Seattle. One overlooked feature is that you can have mail sent to multiple email addresses. So I don’t have to worry about a family member opening an important letter and losing it or forgetting to tell me about it.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by gscott »

kvee wrote: post #90
moxplod wrote: post #51

I 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 s…

https://lob.com/ is a YC backed company.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by baroffoos »

falcrist wrote: post #97
isclever wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to get on the HTTPS bandwagon as well https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/

Brian Lunduke inadvertently found an exception to this. He wanted to make his site accessible by very old browsers... So he stopped using https. http://lunduke.com/ It's a dumb exception, but you guys might find it mildly amusing.

Great, compromise the security for the 100% of users to keep the 0% reading linux news on IE2 able to visit.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by CamelCaseName »

dmitrygr wrote: post #86

For 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"…

Seems reasonable given the payment processing fees.

I'm spitballing here, but ordering a single $1.54 letter would cost $0.30 + $0.03 in fees, $0.55 for the stamp, $0.03 for the envelope and maybe $0.25 for the labor, paper, ink, machine maintenance, overhead, etc. And that's before advertising and other costs.

So it seems pretty reasonable that they want to reduce that $0.30 fee, especially if a large number of people only order one card.

And in all honesty, if you're willing to avoid their service over worries of losing $3.46 in credit, you're probably not their ideal customer.

Re: Mail a Letter Online

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Post by mharris83 »

et2o wrote: post #89
__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…

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.

Thankster.com can do this with on-demand projects or via our plans for integrations. We're very flexible. You can reach out via the site and if you can mention HN we'll give a discount on your first order.
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