March 13, 2003
MMS postcards sent by the post office
02 Germany, the German affiliate of British telecom operator 02, has announced a new service starting next April, allowing subscribers to send MMS postcards.
From their cell phones, users will be able to forward an MMS (picture+text) to the Post Office, who will print it out as a postcard and deliver it to the recipient, who could only be someone with no inclination for immediacy, which well, is really what the medium is all about or, perhaps someone who just doesn't own an MMS phone.
One wonders if this will meet with the same success as the Swiss post office's plan to print out e-mails and forward them by registered mail. That was grand.
Maybe I just don't get it, apparently this is a new trend, Vodafone has announced a similar project. Read about in French Yahoo News.
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