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I get an email from the USPS every day with pictures of all the mail coming to my mailbox. It’s a service they offer for free.
by browningstreet 2y ago
I get an email from the USPS every day with pictures of all the mail coming to my mailbox. It’s a service they offer for free.
- pseudolus 2y agoInformed delivery: https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm
- c22 2y agoMy local hackerspace uses this service with some OCR to email members when they have mail waiting at the space.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoI just did this and paired it with ChatGPT to send me a Discord message like "You received mail from Progressive." Seems silly and lazy but it was a fun afternoon project (boring aside: USPS seems to have bespoke anti-bot measures which uses WASM to sign requests, which means you have to use full browser automation to login. Of course, most people instead parse the daily emails they send you which is a totally reasonable approach as well.)
- tracker1 2y agoWhile a pain to automate on a server, Puppeteer/Playwright are both pretty straight forward to script against.
- instagib 2y agoI had another one for a bit that would scan, open, and scan your mail also. Forward packages. Cheap and easy if you’re on the go. https://www.postgrid.com/mail-scanning-service-companies/ https://www.postgrid.com/mail-scanning-service-companies/
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- SoftTalker 2y agoProbably also sold to Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others
- Turing_Machine 2y agoYep, came here to say this. I don't use it often, but it's pretty handy from time to time (e.g. checking to see if an important package requiring a signature is coming that day, so I can be home or arrange for someone else to be there).