Introducing Amazon Chest™ -- A specialty smart container that allows letters and packages to be delivered right to the front of your home. Carriers simply place packages in the receptacle and an app on your phone notifies you that a package or letter has arrived.
There are mail services that are pretty close to this in practice. Earth Class Mail is an example. Fairly expensive, but if you use them for your mailing address, they will receive the mail, scan the envelope, and provide you the option to have the mail physically forwarded, opened and digitally scanned, and/or junked.
Yes! We could call it electronic mail or e-mail for short.
Am I missing something about Outbox? Why wouldn't they just give the people using this service a P.O box corporate office to use as their 'address' when getting something delivered?
I'm sure they thought of that. Probably some way USPS can refuse to acknowledge it or something.
I've always wondered why private mailbox numbers even need to exist. The numbers could be virtual and all of the packages could be in one place to be retrieved by workers on demand. Perhaps there's some sort of clause USPS has to defeat an idea like that or an arbitrarily low limit for how many #s can be at a physical location etc.