Did you ever want to send a package to someone and not know their "physical" address. It could be someone on your aging AOL buddy list, or even a Twitter Pal. It may be the person who you "met" using Match.com or one of the "social dating sites." Regardless of how you "know" them or how "intimate" you may be with them, if you don't have their address you can't easily send them a present.
Well that's changing. A service out of the UK, dubbed SendSocial, has all that licked.
Basically, SendSocial acts as the middleman on the transaction, the same way Jangl wanted to be with anonymous telephone calling.
Right now the service is limited to the UK, but I expect that wave to catch on here in the USA, as soon as they can "hook up" with a USA based package delivery service. I mean, do you really think the US Postal Service would embrace address less delivery anytime soon?
While it could be the key to their salvation, as slow as our mail industry moves here, what's sent would be passe.
For those people in the UK, it's not really about sending mail without an address, it's an even better way of avoiding Royal Mail as much as possible. if you don't know if the mail is going to be delivered or not, this is a very simple way to have something picked up and delivered on your own terms! Great example of the web democratising postal delivery!
Posted by: Kerryritz | November 24, 2009 at 06:36 AM