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I have often thought that USPS has missed a great opportunity to provide a valuable service and make money while doing it. I'm thinking about a webmail service
by inetsee 6y ago
I have often thought that USPS has missed a great opportunity to provide a valuable service and make money while doing it.
I'm thinking about a webmail service with verified email addresses. You go the a local post office with a government issued picture ID, they give you an email address with a name based on you real name (with possibly some variation because of name collisions) with "usps" as part of the domain name. People receiving email from these addresses can have somewhat increased confidence that the email they're getting is, in fact, from someone they actually know.
- iask 6y agoExcellent idea. Even if they decide to monetize this, at $12 a year.
- supernova87a 6y agoThe post office in Australia (or UK, I don't remember) does something like this but to do with credit cards. They basically make sure that the person applying for a credit card is real by having him/her show up in person to the PO. And the CC company benefits by having a lower fraudulent account rate.
- maxerickson 6y agoMy immediate impression is that I don't care about (and thus don't value) being able to identify people that are cold emailing me.
- gowld 6y agoValuable to whom? I can't remember ever getting an email impersonating someone I know via a legitimate From header with the same name as someone I know.
- TylerE 6y agoThat is trivially easy to do with a little social engineering. Contact lists are stolen all the time