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Watched the film in 2001, still waiting for USPS to start scanning my PO Box mail and email it to me. Actually, they don't have to go that far. I'd take a simple email notifying me that I HAVE mail in my PO Box, and maybe who it's from. Would save me a trip a week probably.
I remember seeing this on the USPS website a while back, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
Watched the film in 2001, still waiting for USPS to start scanning my PO Box mail and email it to me. Actually, they don't have to go that far. I'd take a simple email notifying me that I HAVE mail in my PO Box, and maybe who it's from. Would save me a trip a week probably.
At one point I was supposed to meet Kaleil at CES and our plans kept falling through. Finally as I was waiting for my plane back to SF I got a call from his admin asking if I wanted to join him at his table for the AVN awards that night (the CES dates always butt up against the AVN (porn) awards). I ended up passing....
Watched the film in 2001, still waiting for USPS to start scanning my PO Box mail and email it to me. Actually, they don't have to go that far. I'd take a simple email notifying me that I HAVE mail in my PO Box, and maybe who it's from. Would save me a trip a week probably.
Have you considered using a registered agent service, e.g., Virtual Post Mail and Earth Class Mail? They do this, along with other services like check deposit, and it's only marginally more expensive than a PO box.
I wish I could keep my current PO Box that I've had for years but still have some of these features.
It would be awesome if the Post Office could:
A) Let me know mail has arrived, and from whom.
B) Mail be a box full of my mail once a month to my physical address. That way I can either drive in and get it, if it's urgent, or just wait for the box.
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Have you considered using a registered agent service, e.g., Virtual Post Mail and Earth Class Mail? They do this, along with other services like check deposit, and it's only marginally more expensive than a PO box.
Earth Class Mail filed for bankruptcy recently http://www.geekwire.com/2015/heavily-funded-earth-class-mail... Edit: They're also who I thought this was about. I get Startup.com and Start-up Junkies mixed up. Start-up Junkies followed Earth Class Mail, and was also pretty interesting.
Disclaimer: customer for many years
Watched the film in 2001, still waiting for USPS to start scanning my PO Box mail and email it to me. Actually, they don't have to go that far. I'd take a simple email notifying me that I HAVE mail in my PO Box, and maybe who it's from. Would save me a trip a week probably.
http://thewhineseller.com/2012/03/usps-adds-needed-features-... I remember seeing this on the USPS website a while back, but I haven't tried it myself yet.
> The process of building the business focuses on obtaining venture capital based solely on the idea, with the actual mechanics of the website seemingly almost an afterthought, or at least one left primarily to the hired help.
Basically they were two guys who tried to capture a lot of value without creating any, basically by world-beating levels of hustle. That describes the story of KIT Digital, too.
(Don't forget that Kaleil stabs his cofounder in the back in the middle of the film, too — metaphorically, fortunately.)
I think this is a big problem with the current "entrepreneurial" ethos: you have people out there who are really honestly creating a lot of value, and then you have people like those guys who see a big pile of money and try to scheme up a way to skim a bunch off the top, making life harder for everyone who's actually contributing.
Have you seen the movie? There is ZERO evidence in the movie that either Kaleil or his co-founder Tom are talented or successful. They're certainly, as mikek says in his comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10547832 , "driven"! But that's why they were seeking success by dishonest means in the first place. As IMDB says: > The process of building the business focuses on obtaining venture capital based solel…
It's harder to tell the difference than it probably should be. Around the 2000's there were a number of acquisitions of companies that were mostly hot air. It's a game of hot potato (don't pick it up!), if the investors make bank on your BS company then nobody will complain (except for the acquiring party, but hey, that's their problem...).
It is also hard to tell which companies are actually contributing and creating value and which companies are simply pumping money around. See: groupon for instance.