Comments on: snailmailr is Brilliant!

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:42:37 +0000

Good to know. I could certainly see being able to send letters and/or faxes via an API as useful for a lot of projects.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:33:21 +0000

I’m most familiar with PostalMethods, and it’s a great service for API-based snail mailing. They’re part of a larger offering of API-based offerings, like InterFAX.net; we use InterFAX to automatically send faxes to the warehouse when an order is placed

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:22:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing Any!

By: Any Hanes

Any Hanes — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:23:00 +0000

I am using PostalMethods. This is a service for businesses who want to automate their mailing so I use their web services (they call it Postal API) to send letters and postcards directly from my billing system and CRM. Works perfectly!

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:05:13 +0000

Sorry about the delay in your comment going up Dave – got stuck in the SPAM filter.

That’s awesome that he referred the customer to another service. That’s a business I want to support. Someone who is truly trying to help the customer get the solution that’s best for them, even if they get nothing out of it.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:29:25 +0000

I found this site a few days ago as well and thought it was really cool. I found them offering up this alternative service for international orders:

http://getsatisfaction.com/snailmailr/topics/is_this_service_provided_internationally

http://l-mail.com/

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:19:58 +0000

Wow, more googlings have turned up a whole host of services. There’s something about snailmailr’s simplicity and sleek web 2.0 look that does it for me though, this truly shows the power of branding!

For other services see http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/send-postal-letters-on-internet-via-email/7097/ for a breakdown of the main players.

By: Adam McFarland

Adam McFarland — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing Rob. Postful looks interesting, definitely a ton more options. If I just wanted to send a letter I’d probably use Snailmailr just because it seems so much simpler. If I was going to do a mass mailing of post cards to everyone in our Detailed Image database I’d consider checking out the API on Postful. Nice to know there are options.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:42:13 +0000

I thought of this years ago, but soon found someone offering it so didn’t bother. That said, googling them now I can’t find them… I did however find this company:

http://www.postful.com/

Similar prices, lots more options. Somewhat more complicated to use though.

By: JF

JF — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Yes it’s just common sense… but the service and website is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing your finding.