Remote Control Mail is a new service than blurs the line between email and snail mail by receiving all your postal items, scanning the front of them and placing the results into a web interface for you.

For a once-off activation fee of USD 25 and a sliding scale of monthly fees , the company’s service lets you see images of the postal mail you have received and then,

with a few mouse clicks you can have your mail forwarded, opened and scanned into a searchable PDF document you can read online (or print or save), recycled or shredded, or stored securely.

Interesting idea. Particularly useful, one imagines, for travelling salespeople, rockstars and others who are always on the move or have no fixed abode.

This service is only available to people with a postal address in the USA.

[Via TechCrunch ]

Tags: culture change, email, Internet, not apple mail, postal mail, Snail Mail

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