If you're not already aware, The National Broadband Network, a system designed to bring Australia's internet up to speed with the rest of the world allowing hitherto unseen speeds and capabilities, will let you know when you're premises are ready to connect via the post.
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.
Dear Lifehacker,
I keep getting someone else's mail. It's not like I just moved here. I've been here for three years, and I still get real mail addressed to the person who lived here before me! How can I stop this? It's annoying for me, and can't be good for her, either. Any suggestions?
We get push notifications for pretty much anything nowadays, but if you often forget to check your snail mail, Make Magazine shows us how to get push notifications from it using an Arduino and a simple switch.
Address and send traditional snail mail via email on the cheap with web site Postful. In contrast to a similar service called eSnailer, which sends snail mail for free but requires you to sign up for a "special offer," Postful asks for a relatively low fee of $.99 for the first page and $.25 for each additional page. (AU - more to send outside the US - see their FAQ.)Whether it's to keep in contact with a Luddite lacking an email address or you just really hate buying stamps and finding a mailbox, Postful is a potentially worthwhile tool. You can even set up unique Postful email addresses for frequent contacts so that, for example, you can include your email-less grandparents in an email you're sending.
