Digital Post – Have your post scanned in and e-mailed to you
Digital Post – Have your post scanned in and e-mailed to you
I have just been watching ‘Click’ on BBC1 which shows you about the latest technology movements and ideas.
I’m not sure what to make of the idea of ‘Digital Post’, whether it is a smart move or a stupid one.
With more people sending mail electronically through e-mails instead of the traditional post, the postal industry is falling short because of technology, until now?
A place in Zurich is test driving this idea at the moment. You have your letters sent to an undisclosed location where your envelopes are then scanned in and e-mailed to you. If you then wish for them to open them up then they can do and then scan the contents in and e-mail that to you too.
They said that they have trustworthy ‘vetted’ employees to do the job.
This is what I’m thinking:
- Good idea – Just Brilliant, helps the postal industry embrace technology.
- Bad Idea – there goes all of your personal information, credit card statements, cheque books, replacement cards etc.
- Bad Idea – Stolen Identities just got a little bit easier.
- Good Idea to make money for the business, but what will they charge to scan in thousands and thousands of letters.
- Time Consuming? – To the business to open up all of those letters.
- Time Consuming to the Customer where you have to have your mail redirected to somewhere else and then have it opened and scanned in, just to find it’s an important letter so it takes time for them to send it back.
- What happens if my bank ask me for a copy of my bill or statement?
Can you really see the Royal Mail embracing Technology as this? – I can’t see them going to this extreme but maybe they will have to find a way to embrace technology as this.
One thing that did pop into my head was that we can already see some our energy bills online and bank statements. We will always need to have things sent to us such as physical goods like parcels etc.
Perhaps the encouragement of getting more people to e-mail us?
Digital Post Box – Connects to your Wi-Fi network can you can send e-mails from it in your living room? No booting up a pc…. who knows?
