Postbox Spam
A thought came to me today while I was happily playing away on the xbox 360 in my front room, when for the 15th time this week a piece of junk mail arrived through the letterbox. If I see another pizza offer, crappy local newspaper, or an announcment about a new chinese round the corner, I'll scream!
So it got me thinking. We have had spam filters on our emails for years now and they get increasingly more sophisticated to let your good mail through and keep the bad ones at bay. Now, why can't this be applied to a normal in-the-door letterbox? Something which is an internet connected sensor that can be programmed (and the information shared) to block the crap mail and let the postman through!
All it needs is the Royal Mail to have unique code sensor that automatically unlocks the letterbox when the postman is delivering an item but refuses to open for the junk mail people.
So - anyone fancy starting a new company called "Postbox Spam" Ltd?
So it got me thinking. We have had spam filters on our emails for years now and they get increasingly more sophisticated to let your good mail through and keep the bad ones at bay. Now, why can't this be applied to a normal in-the-door letterbox? Something which is an internet connected sensor that can be programmed (and the information shared) to block the crap mail and let the postman through!
All it needs is the Royal Mail to have unique code sensor that automatically unlocks the letterbox when the postman is delivering an item but refuses to open for the junk mail people.
So - anyone fancy starting a new company called "Postbox Spam" Ltd?
posted by Philip Wilkinson @ 11:46 am
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