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11:50PM Jesus Diaz | I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack. Bright in early next morning, he brought my letter back. She wrote upon it: Rewind to sender, address unknown. The VHS mailbox. [There I Fixed It via Obsolete]
Rewind To Sender
11:50PM Jesus Diaz | I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack. Bright in early next morning, he brought my letter back. She wrote upon it: Rewind to sender, address unknown. The VHS mailbox. [There I Fixed It via Obsolete] 
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USPS Suffers As More People Use New-Fangled Electronic Mail
5:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The USPS is having a rough time lately, sending billions fewer pieces of mail each year and shutting down hundreds of thousands of mailboxes. They’re in such dire financial straits they may need a bailout. And it’s all our fault. More »
Design
What Does @ Really Mean?
11:20PM Jesus Diaz | You use it every single day. In English it’s called the “at sign.” The Italians call it “snail.” The Spaniards, “arroba.” The Slavs, “monkey.” But what did @ really mean 473 years ago? More »
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Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
4:00AM Jason Chen | Mail hoarding is a fantastic phenomenon. Slate explains it as the cases where postal workers stockpile mail/packages in their trucks, then act like they delivered them. I discovered that this happens with Fedex too. More »
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3:00PM Nick Broughall | If any of you out there use Yahoo! Mail, you might have noticed some changes to your account yesterday. Essentially they’ve introduced a smarter inbox system that prioritises messages from your contacts, plus the ability to send and receive up to 1GB worth of files. They’re also planning to introduce the ability to feed content from social media sites directly into your inbox… More »
Yahoo! Mail Gets An Upgrade
3:00PM Nick Broughall | If any of you out there use Yahoo! Mail, you might have noticed some changes to your account yesterday. Essentially they’ve introduced a smarter inbox system that prioritises messages from your contacts, plus the ability to send and receive up to 1GB worth of files. They’re also planning to introduce the ability to feed content from social media sites directly into your inbox… More »
Software
12:23PM Nick Broughall | Hand-writing letters to Santa is so 20th Century. These days, Santa has a Gmail account and an iPhone running the Santa Mail App. If you’ve got the app too, you can send the bearded.gift-giver messages that he will respond to individually. While that may not hold too much appeal for you as an adult, it will give you a certain level of street cred with your kids, especially when they get individualised responses. More »
Santa Mail App Lets You Email Santa From Your iPhone
12:23PM Nick Broughall | Hand-writing letters to Santa is so 20th Century. These days, Santa has a Gmail account and an iPhone running the Santa Mail App. If you’ve got the app too, you can send the bearded.gift-giver messages that he will respond to individually. While that may not hold too much appeal for you as an adult, it will give you a certain level of street cred with your kids, especially when they get individualised responses. More »
Software
TouchType Allows for Landscape Writing in iPhone Mail
7:15AM Jesus Diaz | If you are like me and prefer to write in landscape mode in the iPhone, go and download TouchType for just 99 cents at the iTunes App Store. This program will allow you to write your emails faster and with more accuracy than with the smaller portrait keyboard. When are you are done, click a button to send the text to the Mail application, where a new message will be created with your message text. Fill the To and Subject fields and you will be ready to go. [iTunes via TechCrunch] More »
Software
Apple Rejects MailWrangler App for ‘Leading to User Confusion’
7:10AM Mark Wilson | Apple’s iPhone Mail app isn’t bad, but for those of us looking to use advanced Gmail functions (like managing multiple accounts or starring items), an app named MailWrangler would fill in the gaps…that is, if Apple hadn’t rejected the application from their iTunes store. Here is the message sent from Apple to the developer, six weeks after the program was submitted to iTunes: More »
Entertainment
Blockbuster Online Having Mailing Issues As Well?
9:03AM Jason Chen | We just received a tip from reader Michael that Blockbuster online has been having shipping issues with their movies as well. Netflix’s recent outage was settled in about three days, but Michael’s problem has been ongoing for the last four business days. When he called a customer service rep, they said Blockbuster’s shipping centre were having an “allocation issue”, and many other customers have been complaining. More »
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