Pixel Thread

L-Mail is a new service that lets anyone send a real letter by email. You send an email to a pre-defined email address, L-Mail prints the letter out and sends it to the supplied physical address.

So just when the World has converted to email, and even your granny has a gmail account, who needs to send printed letters? Well it’s probably a few million people…

When you and everyone you know is online it’s easy to assume that the world is connected but according to Internet World Stats , only 17% of The World’s population use the web. So it’s fair to assume a big proportion of those users must be in communication with people who don’t use the web.

I’ve often wished for this kind of service. It’s all too easy to stop communicating regularly with people / family who don’t use email. Often I’d like to be able to type a few lines to older and non-computer user members of my family, but to write a letter, go and buy stamps and find a post box just makes it too much kufuffle!

For me, as a proud Dad, the crucial missing ingredient from L-Mail is the ability to be able to send photos using this service. Apparently it’s in the pipeline, and if it emerges, I may well sign up.

And another company offering this service I’ve just discovered is a site called Postful promising a full colour one-page letter for just $0.99 …