New Feature: Letter Confirmation
October 11, 2007
When we built Postful, one aim was to make sending letters as easy as sending e-mail. We made sure that you didn’t need to go through multiple steps to confirm your intentions. Just send an e-mail, proof your letter (we always give you at least two hours for this), and, if you don’t cancel, it is automatically dispatched for mailing.
However, some of you told us that you’d prefer to explicitly confirm messages. Now you can. Just go to your account preferences page and turn on the option to “Require user confirmation prior to mailing”.
When activated, all letters will be held until you explicitly confirm them.
Postful Forums
October 8, 2007
Postful is starting to feel lonely. Don’t get me wrong, the employees of Postful are doing just fine (we’ve long since stopped feeling pain). But sometimes a company needs more than profits and quarterly filings, it needs friends.
So we’ve opened up the Postful forums to provide our dear company with companionship. It’s a place where you can share suggestions, complaints, heart-warming stories, and manifestos. You can find out what other people are doing with or to Postful and perhaps get some new ideas for your own projects.
New Feature: Letterhead
October 8, 2007
One feature that many of you have asked for is the ability to print on your own letterhead. We, as always, are happy to oblige.
Now you can change your letterhead at a moment’s notice. Moving? New title? Running from the law for a crime you didn’t commit and changing your name every step of the way? No problem. You don’t have to worry about wasting a single sheet of paper (or the money to print it). You produce only what you need, exactly when you need it.
All you have to do is upload your letterhead in PDF format, set the margins and you’re ready to go. And the charge for this service? We thought we’d keep it simple and make it free.
The Postful API
August 22, 2007
We’re excited to announce the release of the Postful API. With a few lines of code, any application can now generate dynamic print and mail. Every mailbox on the planet is now wired. Any application can now reach the other 80% of the planet that isn’t online. The web just got a lot bigger.
- CRM applications can send out automated follow-up letters.
- Web applications can snail mail signup confirmations.
- Family-oriented sites can mail newsletter to family members without
e-mail. - Invoices and bills can be delivered in whatever format your clients prefer.
- Content from the web can be printed and mailed as soon as its produced.
I’m sure you’re all asking yourselves how you can sign up. It’s easy. If you have a Postful account, you’re already signed up (if not, send a request for an invite). Your regular login credentials will work for the API. Just head over to the docs and start imagining how you can make use of this today.
Site Update
August 16, 2007
We will have a few minutes of downtime tonight at 12am (PST) for a regular update. As always, letters sent during that time will be safely held and processed when the system comes back up.
Postful Handles Office Documents
August 2, 2007
We previously mentioned that Postful supports PDF files. Postful also supports sending Microsoft and Open Office documents. As with PDF’s, just add the file as an attachment to your e-mail. If you’d like to add a note to be included with the file, just add it to the body of the e-mail (if you leave the body blank, no extra page will be printed).
If you want the tightest control of the output possible, I’d still recommend PDF, but this opens a lot of options. Most of our documents are still in these formats. Rather than dealing with conversion or copy-and-pasting, you can send them along by mail as easily as you’d send them by e-mail (this is becoming a theme for us).
Whether you’re sending out copies of a contract or agreement for final approval or mailing a paper in from the beach, Postful continues to expand towards serving as the universal printer for the web.
