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Protect Mail-Order Gadgets with a Drop-Style Mailbox

Image you're waiting all week for your new 32GB memory card to show in the mail. As the "expected delivery date" whooshes by, you're wondering if maybe one of your sneaky neighbors or their sneaky chi...

Get Rid of Mail-Clog Catlogs with a Free Web Service

With e-mail and paperless billing, it seems like we rarely get any snail mail anymore. So why is our mailbox always stuffed with catalogs? If you've got the same problem, check out the mailbox de-clut...

How Do You Rent Movies Today?
Survey

In a day in age where a format can go from complete ubiquity to complete bust in a matter of months (such as the all too familiar epic HDDVD vs. Bluray battle), our means of acquiring movies have neve...

The Google Map Envelope

It seems like 99 percent of the mail we send is electronic these days. The other 1 percent is letters and postcards that we want to postmark with our (usually enviable) location for the recipient. Th...

POSTCN01 Tells You When You've Got Snail Mail

Do you still receive snail mail? We do from time to time, but not that much. For some people, getting you mail involves something quite elaborate, so we can see how this little gizmo might be useful. ...

The iPhone Christmas Card: There's an App for That

Something about the holidays makes us want to curl up on the couch with some hot cocoa and glance at the cards friends and family have sent us. We'd have a lot more holiday cheer if one of those cards...

5 Ways to Reach Out to Family With Tech

Us gadget-minded folks always want to talk about stores and shopping, but we all know the holidays are about more than gifts. There's plenty of ways that technology can help you reach out to friends a...

Mac Mailbox! Does it Still Get Spam?

With all those Christmas cards coming in the mail, we're paying a little more attention to that box at the end of the driveway. We spotted this Mac-turned-mailbox on Gizmodo last week, but it's not ...

Priority Mail Virtual Box Simulator Reduces Shipping Guesswork

Sometimes guessing which box to use to ship can a crap shoot. But now you can determine which box is best suited for shipping using the USPS Virtual Box Simulator to project box holograms onto the ima...

Stopper Postcard: You'll Know How Long it Took to Deliver!

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...

One Penny Post: A Virtual Postcard with a Real-Life Result

Isn't the internet amazing? I woke up this morning, picked out a picture of me and a friend from Facebook, typed a quick "I miss you" message, turned it into a postcard and mailed it to her in England...

Using Google to Manage Out-Of-Control Holiday Mailings for Free

It's an awesome treat to get a Christmas card in the mail from somebody long-forgotten in your life, like a childhood friend or a distant cousin's cousin. But on the other end of that, you know Suzy (...

Gmail is Doing Their Part to Stop Drunk Emailing

Following in the footsteps of breathalizer phones is this Gmail add-on from The Official Gmail Blog called Mail Goggles. When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to...

The Mailbox Indicator Flag for the New Generation

If you want to be annoyed into a screaming stupor whenever you get a message on your computer, get an iKnock. If you'd rather have something more, shall we say—subtle to let you know when a new ...

Survey: Webmail or POPmail?

Since Tuesday we've been dealing with internet issues -- meaning we have none. By sitting just so in a corner of our apartment we've been hijacking someone else's WiFi, but that's no way to live. Spe...