IT-Review

New term to enter Internet vocabulary L-Mail

If the creators of a new system have their way L-Mail will soon become the common term used to describe sending physical letters via a web site using any Internet Service Provider (ISP).

L-Mail.com, to be launched on 28 September 2004, will be offering consumers and businesses the ability to send postal letters via any Internet enabled computer through a simple web based interface.

Users of the service will simply type and format their letter in a browser, click submit before it's printed and put in traditional postal mail systems from one of an initial 7 locations around the world.

The developers of L-Mail claim their service will save users time and money over using traditional post. Letters will frequently be cheaper through L-Mail than traditional mail. For example, a three-page letter to the United States will cost 64p fully inclusive. Postage alone for a 20g letter from the UK to the USA is 68p.

L-Mails can be sent to any address on the planet via the initial seven printing and posting locations:

Australia - Sydney
Canada - British Columbia
Spain - Madrid
United Kingdom - Edinburgh
United Kingdom - Leicester
United Kingdom - London
United States - Ellensburg (West Coast)
United States - New York (East Coast)

Further locations will be added regularly.

Source: press release

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