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Conveyancing Month!

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The UK’s first monthly on-line journal dedicated to conveyancers!

Text Box: The U.S. Postal Service is giving serious consideration to a proposal to start delivering letters and packages addressed to peoples’ emails, rather than their postal addresses. Dubbed “Shellmail”, the proposal is based on the twin notions that these days, people are much more likely to change their physical address than their email address, and that your email address is a unique personal identifier - it belongs to you alone, and nobody else has one exactly like it.. So how would it work? Well, let’s suppose that you were about to go on a business trip, spending a week in New York, and a few days in Holland, before returning home. Before leaving, you would log into a secure website, and key in your itinery. Anyone wanting to send you hard copy documents would address them to your email, and the Post Office would get them to you according to the information that you had posted on the site. Other advantages of this kind of universal “box number” service might be that the post office could filter out junk mail, and if you moved home, all you would have to do to ensure the continued arrival of your post, is to update the site with your new address. The service is unlikely to come on stream for some years yet, and it’ll be up to thee times more expensive when (or if) it does. However, the convenience of sending hard copy documents by “email” might help many potential users to overcome price resistance.

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