Patrick de Laive

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Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

I always forget to put things in the mailbox and today it was nothing different. I forgot to post ‘the blue envelope’ for the fifth day in a row.
After my meeting with Travis Choma I saw the envelope and asked him if he went by a postal drop off box, he did, so I asked if he would be so kind to drop off my envelope… I mentioned briefly that it was important.

20 minutes later I received an email with a picture of my envelop going into the postal box. I thought this was pretty funny but also very convenient way to know for sure it was posted.

Wouldn’t this be a great idea for Fed-Ex, UPS, TNT etc… If they deliver a package somewhere they could make a picture of the package and the person who’s receiving it on their mobile phone and send it automatically to the sender of the package1 this way you would immediately know the package arrived at the right place and you can actually see the expression on the face of your friend, business contact, beloved one etc.!

I know they have a lot of track and trace software available and also probably email alerts text messages etc., but the visualization of someone receiving a package can bring a whole new dimension to shipping products !

It would be very cool for web services as well, you can show all the people who bought your product on a web page (I don’t think I’ll allow Christine le Duc to show my picture on their site though )