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Snail Mail As E-Mail
techcon writes "An Australian startup Planetwide has launched an interesting product called Scan Me. The idea is simple, you redirect your snail mail to them and they scan your physical mail and email it all to you as a text searchable PDF. Targeted at the world wide traveller, it also looks like a good way to help prevent identity theft and getting nasty white powder in the mail."
I don't now about you, but my version of Adobe Acrobat Reader has this newfangled "print" feature.
The unofficial
This service lets you send an email, and have it converted to a snail mail letter and sent to someone. So if you combined the two services, you could send an email which would be converted to snail mail, then the recipient could convert the snail mail to an email that they could read from any computer in the world.
Oh wait...
Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
Oh yeah, cant wait to get my tax return check in PDF. Try explaining that one to the bank teller
...Honest!
Or better yet how about my ATM/Credit card?
Do you take plastic?
VISA, MasterCard, Discover and Amex
Great -- Hands over printed card
Awkward Pause (tm)
Yeah, I had to print it since it came in my email...
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
I don't want them forwarding me a scan of my monthly Playboy. Hmm on second thoughts :)
Rus
Cheap UK and US VPS
an AOL disk looks like.
KFG
it also looks like a good way to help prevent identity theft and getting nasty white powder in the mail.
Some people I know would be more than happy receiving white powder in the mail.
Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting
In 1996 when I had to travel in order to take Oracle7 classes, my company's owner would send me packing in my own car with gas and food money only. When I would arrive at the hotel (having driven from Louisville KY to say, *Framingham MA* (a hellacious drive of 20 hours) I would call him at the office (often late at night) and he would fax an image of his credit card straight to the hotel desk: blown up to 8.5"x11" size. They always accepted it.
5) Columbia House CD of the Month Club selection
4) Beer of the Month Club selection
3) Oh...look - shiny!
2) Cookies? What cookies?
1) Congratulations! You're the Publisher's Clearinghouse winner!
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
Or even just buy a hamster.
Really, I'm always amazed how fast hamsters and the like can chew through a stack of papers. Not to mention, they're also cheaper than an actual shredder. Cute too.
"Or even just buy a hamster. I'm always amazed how fast hamsters and the like can chew through a stack of papers."
When a paper-shredder escapes, it doesn't chew through everything soft in your entire house...