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Snail Mail My Email: Send Email the Old Fashioned Way, or You Could Just Get a Pen and Write a Letter

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There have been a few different attempts at sending email via good old snail mail, but this is the first that looks promising to me. Snail Mail My Email sounds like an interesting service, and the big difference from other services is that your email is actually handwritten before being…

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July 20th, 2011 by: Range

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Space Invaders Mailbox Delivers First-Class Aliens

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It’s been a little while since we featured any Space Invaders around here. So here goes nothing…  Space… Invaders… Mailbox…

This special delivery comes to us courtesy of Nimcraft. While Nim thinks the mailbox invaders are “un-perfectly painted”, I don’t care. It’s way cooler than any of the mailboxes in…

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November 15th, 2009 by: Technabob

Computer Mailboxes Receive Snail Mail, Not E-Mail

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Even though we already have e-mail, I think it will still take some time before we abandon snail mails. In the mean time, why don’t we give our plain old mailboxes a (fake) hardware upgrade? Here are a couple of ideas to get you started. I know we can do…

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April 3rd, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

E-Mail Goes Low Tech

Paper E-mail Pads from ThinkGeek

Working in the online biz, I just can’t seem to get away from e-mail. All day and all night, the messages flow. I get hundreds each and every day (and that’s before the spam). I can only imagine how big that stack of would be if the messages were written…

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April 11th, 2008 by: Technabob

Gps Goes Postal: Could Help Solve Usps Delivery Woes

GPS Letter Logger for USPS

This new device was commissioned by the United States Postal Service in order to hunt down some of the inefficiencies in their mail delivery process. Developed by California’s TrackingTheWorld, the gadget is slipped inside of a letter, and tracks the precise journey of an individual piece of mail.

The LetterLogger…

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November 24th, 2007 by: Technabob

Mail Delivered by Actual Snails

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Real Snail Mail is an art and technology project being conducted by the technological artists collective of Boredom Research.

The project has real snails delivering electronic messages via tiny RFID tags attached to their shells. The messages are delivered literally “at a snails pace.” to their destinations. At the Real…

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October 11th, 2006 by: Technabob

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