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Reading Your Postal Mail Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-you-really-better-do-backups dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remote Control Mail gives us one more reason not to leave our computers. Their service lets you access your postal mail on the Web. They offer scanning of mail contents, shredding, recycling and shipping. There's a good writeup on Techcrunch, complete with a CAD animation showing some robotics technology (Flash Movie) that RCM is developing to automate mail handling. The service costs $25 to get started and $20 a month for individuals." Now if we could only reply the same way.

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  1. wait till NetFlix hears about this! by yagu · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is very cool! But I'm not sure what NetFlix and Blockbuster (among others) are going to think about this! Finally, an easy way to get DVD's onto my computer!

    1. Re:wait till NetFlix hears about this! by Dunbal · · Score: 2, Funny

      secretaries who used to do that for managers. And - get this - they were mostly chicks!

            Chicks are good at opening other people's mail anyway. Just ask your mother or your wife - "oh sorry I opened it I thought it was for me...". Never heard THAT one before...

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  2. Re:Doubleplusgood! by krell · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Snail mail is the ONLY private form of communications we have left."

    And as long as they keep destroying or losing my letters, or as long as they remain in Hefty trashbags stacked around Newman's living room, they will remain private.

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  3. There's some sort of loop involved... by krell · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's some sort of pointless loop involved if all I use this service for is to read my paper-mailed ISP and "Remote Control Mail" bills online. A veritable Mobius-strip of "what the hell FOR???!?!?".

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  4. Extra services by edwardpickman · · Score: 4, Funny

    For an extra $3 a month we can tell your creditors to bite you.

    For another $5 we can break up with your scary ex for you.

    And for an extra $10 a month we can forward your up coming invitation to visit Iraq from your Uncle Sam to an address in Canada.

  5. I'm in favor by Hennell · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think this is a brilliant idea. I'll be perfectly safe from all those angry letter bombs I'm sent...

    Do they have a form of penalty system if your mail blows-up the shredder?

  6. Non-letter contents by identity0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But if someone mails me anthrax, will they convert it to a Outlook macro for me?

    If my gf sends me panties, will someone sniff it for me?

    When the brother of the ex-president of Nigeria sends me his check, will they PayPal it to me?

    See, unless it does all the things I use my snail mail for, it's useless to me.

  7. Re:Doubleplusgood! by Firehed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That explains the spam for CH32P S0M4.

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