Comments on: Cameramail: Dear Mr. Postman, Take Some Photos Will Ya?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:35:55 +0000

It seems like it would be more fun if the mail-carrier took photots while he was delivering the mail, not just in the office.
But then again, how many of us have actually been in the back of the post office?

By: ted

ted — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:43:18 +0000

Do you really want to know more about the postal service? Just ask. Maybe they have tours.
Your life must be dull indeed if watching people sort mail makes it "more interesting".

By: Lasse

Lasse — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:09:23 +0000

You couldn't do this today without being shipped off to Guantanamo.

By: Alannah

Alannah — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:35:46 +0000

Okay, so the link is titled 11111001111, which I assumed would be some clever binary reference to the content of the site. Instead it's simply this : ù

The camera trick is cool. It would be much cooler if the postal employees would take pictures of the steps it took to get there, maybe the neighborhood around them.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:54:50 +0000

At the bottom of the photos page, there is the following: "...apparently one of the women in it posed in playboy.
My mailman told me so, and as I recall, it's not the one you'd suspect."

So which one of the ladies was in Playboy?

By: stacyj

stacyj — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:45:48 +0000

I agree with silversand and plainswalker75, this is a pretty cool idea and certainly doesn't need any more justification than "to make life more interesting" ... People -are- fascinating, both in their similarities and their differences, I would be utterly intrigued to see 1) whether or not anybody would play along in the first place, and 2) just what they would deem worth taking a picture -of- to send back to some stranger. Furthermore, from the postal employees' perspective, I bet it was pretty neat - I know -I'd- like it if someone unexpectedly showed a little interest in what I was doing, or if I got to play around with someone else's camera strings-free ...

By: plainswalker75

plainswalker75 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:07:53 +0000

"To what end?"

To make life more interesting, that's why; as silversand says, I know absolutely nothing about the postal carriers that deliver my mail and I personally think it would be pretty cool to see a package's trip across the country

By: ted

ted — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:15:55 +0000

To what end?

This would be a complete and utter waste of time. Would postal workers really want to give people the impression they have the time to waste on pointless efforts like this when they should be sorting and delivering mail?

By: silversand

silversand — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:01:11 +0000

I certainly love this idea! I find it a miracle sometimes how something sent from Berlin to south Germany merely takes 12 hours to be delivered and I often wonder how many and what kind of people are working hard to bring my letter from A to B. Nothing depressing or boring about it at all in my opinion.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:00:53 +0000

Really? This seems as pointless and boring as walking into a post office and taking pictures of boring people doing boring things. I mean, I can't think of anything I would want to see less than post office workers at work. How depressing! And to waste money on cameras and developement! For shame sir!