Comments on: IDEA #51 – Email via Snail Mail, for free!

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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:45:14 +0000

[...] IDEA #51 – Email via Snail Mail, for free! [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:29:43 +0000

New site to receive Snail Mail online.

By: alvaro

alvaro — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:02:15 +0000

Is this option from amazon.com ? “or they could have it sent for free, advertising-supported. Thus, in the envelope would be offers from Home Depot, Amazon.com”

Thanks in advance

May grace be with you

By: Greg Harris

Greg Harris — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:20:36 +0000

I used to do this from my Commodore 64 in 1986 from Compuserve on a 300 baud modem.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:54:03 +0000

So September 22nd, 2005!!

http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2005/09/menas_mom_meet_.html

Love this blog, Steve… So many great ideas!

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:35:53 +0000

@David — L-mail.com seems to do that.

By: David Hall

David Hall — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:21:53 +0000

It would be great to be able to ship the emails overseas. I’m in the military and just returned from the combat zone. We have the ability to email home from Iraq but everyone is always more excited to receive physical mail. This would be a great service for the troops.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:13:23 +0000

Great idea Steve. I like this one because it is simple. Joe Public could almost set this up in his mom’s basement.

By: Justin Garten

Justin Garten — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:57:01 +0000

Hi. I’m one of the founders of Postful.

Steve,

The ad supported model is one we’ve looked at very closely (and remains an option for the future). In our case, we found that a majority of potential users were willing to pay to avoid ads. Business users in particular couldn’t have ads sent along. Others didn’t want to mix the personal vibe of letters with ads. That said, there was a significant group that preferred ads. I definitely think there’s room for both models.

Jeremy,

We actually have people doing this (blogs) in the beta. One clever user setup a special RSS feed for mailing entries to his grandmother (he uses a particular tag for entries to mail). When we open the public API, I expect to see more tools become available.