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Snailmailr: send physical mail from the web
Snailmailr costs a little bit more than a stamp, but saves you the time of picking up stamps or printing them yourself. Including the cost of envelope and paper, $1 is a pretty reasonable price to pay. There's a little bit of an extra cost, though, if you don't want to be tacky: you can remove the Snailmailr logo from your envelope for an extra 15 cents. Everything else about Snailmailr looks good: they allow color images in letters, and they address environmental concerns by using recycled paper and buying carbon offsets.
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nanomatrix said 10:31AM on 8-16-2009
I actually find the service useful for sending crap to relatives you barely want to mail to, but that wont check email... I also like http://www.ezgram.com/, you can upload PDF files and more and send it for the same price or cheaper... Oh and it takes paypal.
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Rich said 1:12PM on 8-16-2009
My gf uses this for her grandparents that don't have a computer. She can email out pics of her kid to them and they absolutely LOVE it.
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Jash Sayani said 1:22PM on 8-16-2009
Sweet! Thanks for the post Jay.
This might come useful some day...
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pamaran said 11:50PM on 8-16-2009
www.freepostit.com is doing this service totally free of cost. You can send images, text, greetings etc. They very neatly print it and send at their own cost by post duly stamped.
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blaszta said 4:35AM on 8-18-2009
Thx pamaran for the info! :-D
kevin@snailmailr.com said 7:28PM on 8-17-2009
Hi folks,
I'm Kevin, the founder of SnailMailr - thanks for the attention DownloadSquad!
At SnailMailr we're trying to make something that is quality and sustainable ... so that's why we're not offering it for free, we think maybe folks actually *want* to pay for some things, so they can feel confident, for example, that there won't be any advertising in the letter, etc.
Also - we don't know how to make money by sending letters for free (postage costs a lot!)... ;)
Our focus is on making the letter sending process quick and easy (no need to create an account, elegant interface, pay with an amazon account) ... and we guarantee that the letter, when received, will look *exactly* as it does on our confirmation page - we endeavor to make our customers comfortable (via our interface) that letters sent through our service will create a quality impression upon arrival.
We've got a discussion going on about these issues on our support page at: http://getsatisfaction.com/snailmailr
We want to make our service really useful and worthwhile, so - thanks for the invaluable feedback in the post, and thanks also to the community for the comments.
Cheers!
Kevin
kevin (at) snailmailr (dot) com
http://snailmailr.com/send-letter
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pamaran said 9:25PM on 8-17-2009
Dear Sri Kevin,
Definitely it does not mean that anything that is offered free is inferior in quality. I am a most satisfied customer of this freepostit. How they send it free spending postage from their account is not known to me also. Perhaps from the profits they make from their commercial version. But my friends to whom I send photos or letters from my desk say that the quality of these photos are very excellant even above the quality of paid studio prints. Why not you test it yourself, if you have friends in their service area