h a l f b a k e r yQuis custodiet the custard?
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I have a mail box. Occasionally, mail is inserted into it.
Checking it is tedious, it frequently means I spend a little
longer staring into an empty box than is optimal. Scanners
are cheap. Build one into the mail slot so it scans incoming
mail, and you get an email with a picture of each letter.
Henceforth,
you can be secure in the knowledge that your box
is empty... or happily slipping down to it to collect your
contact lenses or whatnot.
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Isn't that what the flags are for ? to tell the postie or customer there's letters waiting to be picked up. |
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So you want to increase the amount of spam in my email? The majority of what goes into my mailbox is flyers, ads, junk advertisments of all kinds. |
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I live in an apartment, there are no flags, I also don't
like to go home unnecessarily. Going home instigates
a whole raft of events that result in larger electricity
bills. |
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Does your mail actually get put through a slot one piece at a time. On mine the mailman just opens a door and sticks in a handful, so a camera or scanner can't see if there's anything useful between the layers of junk mail. |
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Now if there was some mechanism to flip through the mail inside the box... |
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Around here we don't have flags for arriving mail either. Just a flag to tell the mailman that there is something to pick up. I was going to say that a system to indicate whether or not there was any mail at all would be useful, but I guess I get junk mail just about every day, so nevermind until that problem is fixed. |
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You can solve junkmail, at least that addressed to
you, simply by moving every year and moving
countries ever 3-4 years. |
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I expected that this mail scanner device would have had a
shredder attachment for junk mail and the ancillary smarts
to tell the difference between junk and the good stuff. |
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in an office setting an in box scanner could at least be a techie toy status symbol until you figure out what to use it for. |
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A scanner for an apartment block might save the postman the work of sorting the mail, just empty a bag into the machine "and let God sort 'em out." (Government Optical Dispersion) machine |
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//I expected that this mail scanner device would have had a
shredder attachment for junk mail and the ancillary smarts to
tell the difference between junk and the good stuff.// |
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Well, it sends you pictures in your email, so there's no reason
you can't divert to a shredder. In fact it would even work for
bank statements and the like, I've often already seen the same
info online. |
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What would be the law regarding having two mail
slots, one called "First class mail" going to your box
and the other called "Bulk mail" going to a shredder? |
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Actually, never mind. Post men would make it a
point to "Oopsie, put that mortgage payment notice
in the wrong slot." |
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This is a great idea, but would the postman accept
taking the time to stick each envelope one by one in
the slot as would be necessary for a scanner to read
it? These are government workers after all. |
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And some kind of manacle that clamps on the postie's wrist, giving the scanner time to scan through all the junk, then rejecting the unwanted back into the aforementioned hand. |
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