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Snail-mail forwarding

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Submitted by ksheth on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 07:07
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If you can forward you email and calls so easily, why not also easily forward your snail-mail? You would sign up for this service and provide your forwarding address, and the site would give you a mailing address and code you can share with the senders of mail to you. The code would also be made available as a QR code that you could affix to the mail to allow us to quickly determine the forwarding address. The initial implementation might be a manual work force that would forward mail as it arrives. A future implementation would involve working with postal systems around the world to implement this within the system itself as an additional service. The local post office that receives the mail would quickly scan the QR code and print and affix a label with the real address and send it on.

Here is a link to an idea that could make use of this solution: http://goodorgreatidea.com/content/stamp-trading-post

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People currently use PO Boxes to anonymize their actual mailing address, but that is not a very scalable model for trading and exchange services because it creates a barrier to entry where the member has to set up a PO Box. This service gives an easy way to the members to anonymize their address in a hassle-free manner.

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