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freepostcards.me

10 pointslikethemoon22 comments

How is it financially possible? Paper has a cost Ink has a cost Postage has a cost Either it is done from the office and this will soon be detected, or it is done from home, with a bankrupcy risk close to 100% Sorry!

it is for now no profit

How are you during the printing and postal submission?

I'd like to know more how it works. Will the recipient get spammed either directly (by advertisement on the postcard) or indirectly (selling the address)?

Without clear statements on this I would have to either not use the service or first mail a postcard to myself, wasting resources if the service is truly free.

$ whois freepostcards.me Registrant Name:Private Registrant Registrant Organization:A Happy DreamHost Customer

No terms and conditions, no privacy policy. I'm not giving them my address!

I don't get it, addresses are public, no? I suppose the name isn't, but you could just as well use just the initials or something.

That's not the issue. Is the uncertainty of unwittingly signing yourself or the recipient up for junkmail or yourself for more spam.

Exactly.

If the website were European, I'd expect a tick-box to opt out from marketing (email or snail mail), which the company would be bound by.

thx for the suggestions, we added a line to the form

"We are truly based on donations.you will get no ads and no spam. thx"

Ah cool.

Also, what data is collected permanently, for how long? What happens if the venture where acquired? Whom would own that?

as posted on the website no data is stored. Data is not shared/sold. if we get donations this will keep working, otherwise we will close it. this is it.

Hi, Thanks for the interest. The project is not commercial for now and this is a thing between friends. So no worries about spam and advertising. We are truly based on donations. thx.

I tried using it, but the form does not accept my @gmail.com address. Says "Mmm… That email does not look valid". please fix

we just tried again,it works. can you please try again?

I can't upload a picture, getting "An error occurred while uploading the file"

strange,please send us an email

So,have you used it? how/what can we improve?(beside the TOS)

I got the postcard!thx!

how does this work? Is there a business model?

If you scroll down you'll see they have ads and a way to donate to the site.

"It costs us some to print and post your photos as postcards. Please support us to keep this service free, forever."

De facto nonprofit.

cool!

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