I was recently looking for something related: an online fax service. Most of those sites seemed to ooze sleeze and required a subscription. I finally decided on http://payperfax.com which looked much less cluttered and is pay-as-you-go. Much better if you only need to fax a couple times a year and is platform independent (there is a decent looking windows-only Skype plugin service called PamFax)

For whatever reason, some markets seem to get filled with crap. Just do a search for "online fax" if you want a taste.

I'm working on a project (announcing it in about 8 hours on here, actually!) that would benefit from giving users an easy way to mail a letter while sitting at their desk.

We're just poking around to see who's out there. Ideally our users would be able to click a link, fill in a form and have a letter mailed a letter to an address autopopulated from our service.

I was just looking around and was thinking that the money was probably to be made in (gulp) enabling junk mailers. But it looks like the US Postal service already has that down:

http://www.click2mail.com/how_it_works

In any event, good luck.

You can use PostalMethods' Web Services to complete your work in a few hours.

Somebody asked about a similar service. I think it's probably a viable business, providing web-service enabled letter printing and mailing. Send a chunk of XML or a PDF up to the server, and it gets printed, and sent out.

Hmm, I should think about it more, might be possible to do it in my spare time. Then if it grows, hire temps or other low cost labor to do it.

Before spending a lot of time with this - have you thought out your customer acquisition strategy? At such low price points Adwords will be very expensive. How are the others in space doing promotions?

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