Last month, I bought a tiny air conditioner on ebay for my sweltering top-floor apartment. Despite me being home and anxiously awaiting its arrival, the delivery service decided to leave it on my busy street where it was promptly stolen.

Christmas is coming and small businesses in the retail sector will be sending their goods out to customers over this period. Officeworks has brought out a cheap 500g pre-paid satchel offering for businesses that need to send smaller items. The office supplies retailer did this after conducting research on the postage habits of small businesses. Here's what you need to know.

iOS: We've talked about signing documents from your phone before, but one of the lesser celebrated features of iOS 9 was integrating this directly into the Mail app.

Australia Post offers a variety of different postal tiers depending on your needs. It's worth looking at the fine print of what those tiers actually mean, however, especially as "Priority" mail can be anything but a priority to Australia Post.

Managing your email is never fun, but Finer Things in Tech points out that Apple Mail has a slightly hidden keyboard shortcut that makes moving messages around a little easier.

So this we did not expect: far from echoing global trends to kill off mail services, Australia Post is going to start six-days-a-week deliveries across the country next year.

Microsoft is updating the built-in Mail, Calendar and People Apps in Windows 8. The most notable changes? Updates that allow those apps to integrate better with Exchange accounts, and also make them somewhat more functional.

When mailing a package, it's important to make sure the shipping label is legible, even if it gets soaked in the rain. Luckily, all you need is a candle to cover it with a weatherproof barrier.

Physical letters used to rule the world, back when a stamp was an object of value and power. Now, Australia Post spends more time sending out eBay parcels, and physical mail is often derided as "snail mail". How important is a physical letter to you?

A link exploit has been found by Yahoo Mail users that can compromise your accounts. Here's what to watch out for.

What's more thrilling than receiving your online shopping order? Realising that you've accidentally been sent something extra in the same package and haven't been charged for it. But can you legally keep it? In Australia, the answer is "maybe" -- but you have to go about it the right way. Here's how.

If you don't process your mail daily it tends to become clutter, either on a side table, your desk, or another area. That's a mess and you'll probably lose something important eventually. Consider using a small basket or box to contain your daily mail until you can process it weekly. This keeps your mail handy, you don't have to worry about losing important mailed documents such as tax notifications or car registrations and it will help keep clutter to a minimum.

Our lives are filled with spam. It has many names and comes in many forms, from email to snail mail to text messages and more. With the help of technology, as well as some clever thinking, it's not too difficult to filter out all the unwanted crap in your life. Here's how to do it.

It's fun getting email and snail mail when you receive something you actually want, but that joy is easily overshadowed by the massive amount of mail you don't really care to read. While spam filters do a great job of killing your supply of junk mail, your physical and digital inboxes are likely filled with newsletters and advertisements you could easily do without. Here's how you can clear out all that crap.

A little over a year ago Yahoo started rolling out the beta version of its new Mail service. Now the beta tag is gone and Yahoo has moved everyone to the new layout. If you preferred the old version, Techdows found a trick to get it back using, of all things, your display settings.

An unrealistic fantasy of most guys (nerds?) is to forge their own sword and wield it on the field of battle. Instructables user Mrballeng will show you how to forge your own Excalibur letter opener and wield it on the field of bill opening.

If you want to get into an already-sealed envelope without ripping it apart, all you need to do is pop it in the freezer for an hour or two.

Mac: I currently use Mail Act-On to quickly move and archive messages from my mail inbox to the correct folder, but Matt Gemmell found a built-in way to do this in Lion's Mail.app with the favourite Mailboxes feature.

Scam emails are distressingly common, but scams that use old-fashioned snail mail still proliferate. In one example currently active in Victoria, Queensland, SA and NT, travel-themed scratch cards are used to try and con people out of their money.