It's a fact that everyone still has to use snail mail. The Stopper Postcard does something pretty neat. It measures the actual time it took to deliver. While it doesn't deliver this information to you, your recipient will know how long the card took to arrive. It's definitely something fun and interesting to send in the mail, kind of like a novelty item. The most interesting would be if the card traveled through different countries via airmail, now that would be interesting to measure.
Stopper Postcard: You'll Know How Long it Took to Deliver!
It might be not that useful, but it's something that I've wondered. How long does it take for the mail to actually arrive? It's designed by Tal Mor et Shlomi Azulay from the Tel-Aviv based studio DAG-designlab. The Stopper postcard will tell you while making postal workers just a little more stressed. Actually, we don't think that it would stress them too much. We are actually more worried about the LCD counter. It kind of makes your postcard look like a letter bomb. Thankfully, the counter goes up, not down. Still, if you'd send this for real, we wouldn't be surprised if it didn't arrive.
Snail mail is still used everyday and sometimes I am amazed that something sent from Asia will arrive in the US within a few days. Remember that it actually does take a few days to travel that big of a distance. Mail can almost do the same. The one thing that I haven't really understood is what stops anyone from pressing the button to stop the timer? [via TrendsNow]
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This is such a waste of material. There is an easy way to tell how long a card took. Well, there are two easy ways depending on how well-versed in writing the sender is. The first is to look at the postmark and see what date it was sent and then a calendar (or a cell phone with the date if calendars are too low tech for you) and do a bit of elementary school math. The second is to hope that your kind sender knows that the way to write a letter or card is to note the date on which it was written at the top and repeat the aforementioned calculations.
Having some sort of counter on a postcard has got to be one of the more absurd things I've heard. It's no wonder we're using up raw material at an incredible rate when it's squandered on frivolities such as this.
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The other thing is that you are not always around to get the mail right as it arrives, so you might be off by hours or days when you finally see this timer.
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Isn't this basically stealing the idea that was in Cast Away (and a lot of places probably do this anyways, but that's where a lot of people saw it)
Plus, I don't think that would make it through the mail too good. You can't even put a wax seal on an envelope anymore and be sure it will make to the end. I've had regular flat pieces of mail mangled beyond belief, so I doubt this will make it easily.
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