The Regular Mail 2.0
In the global overload of predictions for 2009, I taught it would be nice just to tell one New Year’s wish for a change. As you might know the regular mail is highly popular in France (it’s used even for paying your bills, ordering products and all other sorts of things that Web can be more efficiently used for). That made me think about the place of the postal service in the modern world. It will always be a useful thing for sending physical objects, gifts and similar stuff, but the problem occurs with people, who travel a lot – how to deliver regular mail to them on time, wherever they are. So that is my New Year’s – Future of the Web wish. I wish to have a postal service that will bring me my packages and letters wherever I be.
You might say that I’m asking too much. Yes, sometimes I do that
, but if you think for a second that I publish my exact location on FireEagle, and that my future trips are published on Dopplr, it is very easy to imagine a postal service that takes a letter addressed with my URI instead of a physical address, and then delivers it to the appropriate place. It would be a postal service that delivers mail from one person to another instead of delivering it from one address to another.
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