AUDIO: POST OFFICE TO EMAIL YOU YOUR MAIL
The United States Postal Service is rolling out a new free service, called “Informed Delivery.” Here’s how it works: the Post Office will email “black and white images of your actual letter-sized mail pieces” to you by 11:00 a.m. EST on the day the mail is being processed for delivery. The service will only feature letter-sized mail for now; the Post Office hopes to add larger items, such as magazines, in the future. The scanned images will show the exterior front-side only, so you know what is coming in your mailbox later that day. The service is currently offered in the New York City metro area and parts of northern Virginia, with potential expansion in 2016.
* Of course, stopping to take a picture of your mail will delay the delivery, but, hey – pretty pictures!
* Look at you, Post Office, getting all high tech!
* Can we email back and tell them which pieces of junk mail we don’t want so they can throw them in the garbage for us?
* So – how much is this “new free service” going to add to the next increase in stamp prices?
* Thanks for taking away the only fun part of mail – wondering if you’re going to get a surprise.
* The U.S. Mail. They’ll do everything EXCEPT put more clerks behind the windows at the Post Office.
* The service will only feature the external front-side of the letters. The interior shots will still be handled by the NSA.
* It’s offered in New York City and northern Virginia? That sounds about as well-planned out as most government programs.
* Later they hope to add Oklahoma and parts of Maine.
* This way you’ll have a record of what they lost later that day.
CLIP: Our classic “Mail Early” parody spot.
