Re: OT: USPS "informed delivery"

In article <vhjcpb$23tji$1@dont-email.me>, blockedofcourse@foo.invalid
says...

 
I'm trying to figure out the business sense of this.
It obviously costs something to implement.  What is
the expected (long-term?) payback?  Do they expect to
eventually allow people to READ their mail BEFORE it
is delivered?  Simply knowing that <something> is
on its way doesn't really seem to be much in terms
of added value...
 
 
 

The informed mail sure comes in hand to a friend of mine.  Almost every
week he has to chase down his mail.  There are some similar road names
in the county .
About once a month my dad got some mail delivered to him that should go
aout 10 miles away.  He lived on White Farm  road and the other was just
White road.

Similar to the tracking of packages.  I did order one time about $ 100
worth of food from Walmart and it never got delivered to me.  I like the
way some package services take a picture of where they left the package. 
I thought they had left one at the wrong place form the picture but it
was taken sideways.