Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
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#2As a former user and fan of Outbox, it makes me both happy and jealous to see the Swiss post take this on. It makes so much sense. Too bad the USPS is so dependent on junk mail to ever try this. Or..if they did they would mess it up by blasting your "e-post-box" with e-junk-mail.
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#3I used to have a service in Sweden that did this (Abuni) but they failed to get acquired and shut down. As someone who travels a lot, it was a godsend, and I don't know what I'm going to do to replace it.
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#4As a former user and fan of Outbox, it makes me both happy and jealous to see the Swiss post take this on. It makes so much sense. Too bad the USPS is so dependent on junk mail to ever try this. Or..if they did they would mess it up by blasting your "e-post-box" with e-junk-mail.
Hey I can understand one would like that service, but the price at which they are providing it is really high! As a swiss citizen, I'd never subscribe :s
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#5The Finnish postal service is at least testing this as well. I don't know about the current status of that effort however.
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#6I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1]
[1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
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#7That is where all this talk about "what will the Post Office do in the age of ..." goes - they will help me manage all this stuff and rubbish. I will trust the post office to open and scan my mail, far more than I will JRandomStartup.
And then they can handle a one stop bill payment service for me, and as I trust them, they can generate a CA and I will put it in my phone and suddenly they own the customer experience for everyone.
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#8For what it's worth, for anyone interested, I used this service for years, and they're great.
Really nice if you're nomadic and want to have a steady mailing address.
In the U.S., https://www.earthclassmail.com/ provides the same service. I think it is (or was) Earth Class Mail's backend software that is/was powering Swiss Post Box, when I was using it.
Also great for having a U.S. mailing address for your business, if needed.
You can use either of these as the billing address for all your credit cards, bank statements, tax returns, etc.
Re: Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
#9I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1] [1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
Is there any reason the NSA can't open snail mail?
Re: Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
#10I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1] [1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
Is there any reason the NSA can't open snail mail?
They can, but the recipent will see that the package has been opened? It's pretty obvious.