Email Postage Company Says People Want Email Postage Stamps

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Now, design your own postage stamps

Now, design your own postage stamps 08/12/2004 11:32 AM
ZDNet Aug 12 2004 3:51PM GMT

Get off the sofa and bowl; personalized
postage stamps

Get off the sofa and bowl; personalized
postage stamps 09/25/2004 07:04 PM
US News Sep 25 2004 10:33PM GMT

Scratch-n-sniff postage stamps in New
Zealand

Scratch-n-sniff postage stamps in New
Zealand 06/23/2004 02:12 PM
BoingBoing reader Cliff Van Eaton of New Zealand says:

The New Zealand postal service just introduced a scratch n' sniff postage stamp (although they call it a scratch and "smell" stamp, since I guess they've decided us Kiwis don't "sniff"). It's a 45 cent stamp (the normal rate for sending a letter) that gives off the scent of New Zealand-bred magnolia when it's scratched.

The only draw back is that it's only available as part of a presentation pack of all 5 flower stamps. I've had a good go at a normal over-the-counter book of ten 45 cents stamps, and I'll I get is the faint aroma of offset lithography.

Link, scroll halfway down the page to find the special "smellies" gift pack.

Print real US postage stamps with your
own photos. No boobies.

Print real US postage stamps with your
own photos. No boobies. 08/10/2004 04:03 PM
Sean Bonner says, "Stamps.com has launched Photo.Stamps.com where you can upload your own images and print real stamps. Here's some I'd like to see:

Let's check out the Terms and Conditions...

3. Content Restrictions:
You further agree not to use the PhotoStamps website or service:
B. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that is obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, deceptive, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, an invasion of privacy or publicity rights, supportive of unlawful action, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable;

Aw, Crap. Otherwise Objectionable? That's a catch-all if I ever read one." Link

Harry Potter postage

Harry Potter postage 05/22/2004 02:38 AM
The Australian post office has issued a line of Harry Potter stamps. Link (Thanks, Scott!)

Democracy vs. Postage: You be the judge

Democracy vs. Postage: You be the judge 11/02/2003 09:46 AM
Click on this preview to see the Richmond, Virginia absentee ballot in all its glory....

Stamping Down on Personalized Postage

Stamping Down on Personalized Postage 09/23/2004 11:27 AM
Well, at least you can still put your goldfish's picture on a stamp.

SwordfishExpress 2: print postage on
your Mac

SwordfishExpress 2: print postage on
your Mac 05/18/2004 01:26 PM
Developer buyolympia.com has published S wordfishExpress 2, which is billed as the only Mac OS X application authorized to print U.S. Postal Service (USPS) postage on your computer. The new version adds more mail classes, postal rate auto-calculation, XML and AppleScript automation, integration with Address Book and more. You can use SwordfishExpress 2 for US$19.95 per month, with a 30-day free trial at the beginning. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2.7 or higher, 128MB RAM, 16MB free hard drive space and an active Internet connection.

New Schwarzenegger postage stamp on sale

New Schwarzenegger postage stamp on sale 07/30/2004 01:59 PM

Schwarzenegger Postage Stamp Goes on
Sale (AP)

Schwarzenegger Postage Stamp Goes on
Sale (AP) 07/30/2004 07:02 AM
AP - Who says the Terminator can't be licked? A new postage stamp featuring a likeness of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went on sale Friday — his 57th birthday — in his native Austria and the postal service said it was bracing for heavy demand for the 600,000 stamps.

New Schwarzenegger Postage Stamp on Sale
(AP)

New Schwarzenegger Postage Stamp on Sale
(AP) 07/30/2004 11:53 AM
AP - Who says the Terminator can't be licked? Some 600,000 new postage stamps featuring a likeness of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went on sale Friday — his 57th birthday — in his native Austria, and the postal service said it was bracing for heavy demand.

New service turns photos into postage

New service turns photos into postage 08/11/2004 07:14 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 11 2004 10:16PM GMT

Wooden postage stamp from Switzerland

Wooden postage stamp from Switzerland 08/05/2004 12:10 PM
David sez: "Following the w ooden turntable comes the wooden postage stamp! 'On 7 September 2004, Swiss Post will issue its first-ever wooden stamp. Worth five Swiss francs, the "Swiss wood - naturally" stamp is dedicated to Swiss wood... is made of high-quality fir and is 0.7 mm thick.'"

"Yahoo! News reports, 'Designed by Thomas Rathgeb, a graphic artist who works for Swiss Post, the stamps are made from 120-year-old pines felled in northern Switzerland. 'Rathgeb's design focuses on the sustainability and uniqueness of this natural, living material — the structure of the wood, integrated into the contemporary design, produces a different picture on each stamp. This makes each stamp unique, just as each tree is unique,' said Swiss Post."

"The Swiss Post site offers a v ideo clip (WMV) of the production process." L ink

E-mail postage will line pockets, not
stop spam

E-mail postage will line pockets, not
stop spam 02/10/2004 02:53 PM

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway

Mailqube to Support Sender ID. Leader in
enterprise email security supports new
email sender authentication standard in
its Mailqube 2003 secure email gateway 09/05/2004 02:37 AM
Atlantic Sky has announced its support to the Sender ID standard for email sender authentication. Atlantic Sky's support will make Sender ID available to global enterprises through its Mailqube 2003 E-mail gateway. [PRWEB Sep 5, 2004]

UNITED STATES COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE
STAMP TO HONOR R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

UNITED STATES COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE
STAMP TO HONOR R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 07/13/2004 08:43 PM
UNITED STATES COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP TO HONOR R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER .. launched a stamp

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People Lie More on the Phone than Via
Email

People Lie More on the Phone than Via
Email 02/14/2004 07:22 AM
New Scientist

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Do People Need P2P Private Email?

Do People Need P2P Private Email? 09/27/2004 03:20 AM
A company in the UK named Jeftel has come up with their own take on a P2P application -- this one aimed at offering "no leak" secure email. The idea is that rather than worry about your ISP and/or mailserver hanging onto copies of the emails you send and receive, if you and the person your email both had software from this company, you could connect directly between computers and send encrypted emails. The software appears to work on top of existing email clients, which make sense. The company also makes some bizarre claims about how this will wipe out spam, but the small print makes it clear it will wipe out spam only if everyone adopts this solution -- and the company then monitors every account to make sure no one is sending too many messages. Not exactly a reasonable claim, then. It appears the only real benefit to this over encrypted email is that your mail server and/or ISP won't store a copy of the encrypted message -- but if it's well encrypted that shouldn't really matter. Besides, given our government's focus lately on making sure they can tap absolutely every form of communication around, it seems likely that this sort of service won't be too popular with law enforcement types and politicians who will quickly brand it a tool for terrorists.

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
It's really quite impressive how many other businesses spam has generated. There are all the anti-spam companies, and now there's even a company that will monitor if your (one assumes) legitimate email is being called spam. Return Path has a bunch of email accounts at major ISPs and signed up for various spam blocking services. They also monitor all the various blacklists - and will alert you (if you're a big company and you pay them money) if your emails are getting stopped by a spam blocker. They'll also tell you why and make suggestions on how to de-spamify your email. Anyone else think things are getting even more ridiculous when you have to pay a company to make sure your perfectly legitimate email isn't being blocked?

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs

trimMail's Email Battles: CERT Reveals
Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs 12/28/2004 11:37 AM
CERT Reveals Email, AntiVirus Software Bugs .. Permanent link to this item

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Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report

Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report 06/28/2004 03:12 PM
In the latest in an occasional series of e-mails to Microsoft customers, Microsoft's chairman provides an update on the progress of efforts to curb the epidemic of junk e-mail.

Free Email Notifier for POP3, IMAP4 and
Gmail Email Accounts

Free Email Notifier for POP3, IMAP4 and
Gmail Email Accounts 06/17/2005 03:17 PM
Chrysanth Software has released Chrysanth Email Notifier v2.3, a free POP3, IMAP4 and Gmail notification software that helps you to get notified of every incoming email and even spams in your mail boxes while they are still sitting on the remote email servers. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

Offer something in your email newsletter
that people would actually want to read

Offer something in your email newsletter
that people would actually want to read 03/27/2005 05:00 AM
Best thing of Seth Godin's .. the rest of the piece

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Email Hosting Service by Runbox Provides
Businesses with Premium Email

Email Hosting Service by Runbox Provides
Businesses with Premium Email 06/05/2005 11:37 PM
Offer premium email to your business with Runbox Email Hosting. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail

Aliencamel.com - The First Commercial
Email Service to Offer Unlimited Storage
for Personal Email, Finest in its Class
with More Features than Gmail, Yahoo!
and Hotmail 08/17/2004 02:00 AM
Aliencamel.com announces that the email-storage-space race is over. This race was started by Google's Gmail service offering 1GB of storage. AlienCamel has gone the final step and is now offering its users unlimited storage. By removing limits on space, users now have a simple, low-cost service which will keep their emails safe, secure and backed up forever. AlienCamel has implemented the most sophisticated anti-spam filtering and email-virus-blocking technology over the last 18 months. Now, AlienCamel is the first independent commercial email service in the world to offer "unlimited storage for personal email". [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

Careless staff leaking company secrets
by email

Careless staff leaking company secrets
by email 06/17/2004 10:13 AM

Microsoft Acquires Lookout an Email
Search Company

Microsoft Acquires Lookout an Email
Search Company 07/16/2004 09:55 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Jul 16 2004 2:13PM GMT

Google Email? Would You Trade Off Ads
For Better Email Search?

Google Email? Would You Trade Off Ads
For Better Email Search? 01/17/2004 10:47 PM
The big discussion that I've been having with a few different people over the last few weeks is whether or not Google would get into the email business - and, if so, how? To me, it seems like an obvious extension of their technology and business model - but not everyone agrees. However, the rumors are getting louder and louder that Google is developing an email product. The question is whether they'll be offering an entire "Google Email" system, or if they're just working on a version of their AdSense offering that would work within email (generating contextual ads based on the content of the email). Some people I've spoken to about it thought that people would freak out if they thought Google was reading their email to do its contextualization magic - which could be true. The question is how many people will freak out - and will plenty of others be more than willing to welcome the Google contextualization engine into their inbox, in exchange for the ability to actually "Google your email"? Many people always seem to want the ability to better search through their own email. I could see a certain willingness from many people to let Google place ads in their email in exchange for the ability to better search through all the email. If Google could figure out a good anti-spam solution, as well, it could be a real hit.

Owners of ActivSoftware and the Email
Application Server, XM Mail Server,
Offer $10,000 Software Challenge to the
Email Industry

Owners of ActivSoftware and the Email
Application Server, XM Mail Server,
Offer $10,000 Software Challenge to the
Email Industry 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
For years, SMTP server software was used to send and receive e-mail communications. These older servers, usually freeware, have created many delivery challenges. Most of the time, marketers, CEO’s and even CMO’s are completely unaware of these issues. The owners of ActivSoftware, in central New York, introduced a worldwide challenge to prove their software system (http://www.activsoftware.com/xms) is one of a kind in the email industry. [PRWEB Jun 19, 2005]

Increased Demand for Secure Email
Delivers Microsoft Marketing Support for
CertifiedMail; Company Staffs up to

Increased Demand for Secure Email
Delivers Microsoft Marketing Support for
CertifiedMail; Company Staffs up to 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Business Wire UK Apr 13 2005 5:58PM GMT

Adobe Systems Becomes 5,000th Company to
Deploy Solutions from Email Solutions
Provider Lyris

Adobe Systems Becomes 5,000th Company to
Deploy Solutions from Email Solutions
Provider Lyris 06/17/2005 07:20 PM
[PRWEB Jun 8, 2005]

Food Stamps Program (since it no longer
uses stamps) and is soliciting
suggestions from the public

Food Stamps Program (since it no longer
uses stamps) and is soliciting
suggestions from the public 06/24/2004 06:51 AM
RSS

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Email jam

Email jam 09/10/2004 05:38 AM

It looks like my backlog of email has reached a critical level. I will try to get to it in the next few days, but apologies to people waiting for replies from me.

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Must We Pay For Email?

Must We Pay For Email? 12/16/2003 12:32 PM
One of the popular suggestions for stopping spam is to start charging for every email sent. The latest proponent of this plan are the folks at Forrester Research. They make the same mistakes most people do in proposing such a solution - suggesting that the benefits will far outweigh the costs. They suggest that most firms will actually save money because they won't have to pay for spam filters any more. They also suggest that email will become more useful - since emails won't get ignored and/or lost so much. However, there are also a ton of unintended consequences that they ignore. First, revamping the entire infrastructure of email for the sake of tracking and charging will be incredibly expensive. Then, maintaining that infrastructure will raise all sorts of other issues. They will need to track usage, charges, do the billing, and make sure people pay. These are not inexpensive things. It also acts to discourage use. Putting any sort of "per-use" tax will discourage legitimate uses of email just as much as the bad uses of email. Mailing lists would become nearly impossible to maintain, and because email would need to be tracked to specific people, anonymous email would become impossible. The basic idea of charging to stamp out spammers may sound nice, but there are unintended consequences that suggest it wouldn't be a very useful solution, while also placing the cost burden on all of the legitimate users of email.

Email

Email 01/06/2005 05:47 PM
Email is like TiVo for chat.

I’m not sure why I felt like writing that sentence, except that I’m a big fan of the “blank is like TiVo for blank” comparisons. At some point, everything is either like TiVo or like a thing being TiVo’d.

I sometimes enjoy making up absurd comparisons. Clouds are like TiVo for rain. Soup is like TiVo for vegetables. That kind of thing.

Email Without a PC

Email Without a PC 09/20/2004 11:02 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 21 2004 2:24AM GMT

Email-Stuff-0.02

Email-Stuff-0.02 09/19/2004 12:17 AM

submit your email here

submit your email here 09/14/2004 06:37 PM
Gmail Invite Spooler

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Email-MIME-1.4

Email-MIME-1.4 07/01/2004 05:24 PM

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