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AmazingMail.Com -- A Neat Web Product:
by By Paul Kurivchack - June 2000 PPCUG-NJ.prg Princton PC Users Group - September 08, 2000 at 01:51:30:
Sometimes going to other user group meetings can be very interesting. Here is one time I found something very exciting and useful from attending the PowerQuest presentation at the May 10 th meeting of the NJCC meeting in Bridgewater that I wanted to pass on to our members. Gene Barlow, who presents for PowerQuest also represents other products and services. One such product is a web service that is truly different and not like anything else out there.AmazingMail is truly amazing and unique. It is a service that lets you create real Post Cards with any image from their stock library or any jpg image you create and upload (1 MB limit size), add a personalize message, address the card and using US Postal Service (Snail Mail), send it out.
Now, while everyone is moving to electronic messages, on-line photos and greetings why would you use a service such as this? Because not everyone has access to the Web and there are times only a real photo will do. However, going to the photo processing shop and making duplicate photos, then mailing them is such a pain and in most cases, I never share my pictures with anybody. Since I have not moved to a digital camera, I elected to have my 35mm photos scanned onto CD-ROM with the stan-dard film processing I have both standard prints and the digital image. This is where AmazingMail is great. Find that great shot, pull it off the CD into a photo editing package, add a caption if needed and save. Log onto www.amazingmail.com and upload your photo, add your greeting, address and mail it. In about 3 to 4 days, a picture post card arrives. It still makes people happy to receive a post card.
I have used the service twice, once to send a new photo of my daughters to my mother, who will never get on-line and the second to five people as a thank you for donating to a school fund raiser. At a cost of $0.89 per card in blocks of ten, it is very close to the cost of duplicating photos and first class mail and the whole thing only takes about five minutes to complete. Not bad at all, no envelopes to stuff or stamps to lick! Check AmazingMail out at www.amazingmail.com and you will be given one free card to try out. If you use my e-mail ad-dress as the referred by, I will pick up one additional free card also. It is sort of the word of mouth referral system, but none-theless try it out.
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