Q&A
- Slowness as a feature, seriously?
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Well, not so seriously 🤪
It's more of a commentary on today's always-online culture. But we do plan to use this service ourselves when traveling.
- What happens to my data after delivery?
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We pay for hosting ourselves, so we don't want to keep data if we don't have to.
The postcard is stored in a database and erased as soon as it is successfully sent.
- Is my data encrypted?
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It is encrypted in transit (this website uses HTTPS). It is however not encrypted end-to-end, just like most emails and just like a real postcard.
So don't send classified top-secret messages through here :)
- The website gets slower when I submit multiple postcards.
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This is by design: to protect against SPAM, the website requires the client (your browser) to compute a lot of numbers. The difficulty of that computation rises for each letter send in quick succession.
This is to prevent bad actors sending a lot of letters very quickly.
Basically, you should be able to send 1-3 letters per day without waiting more than 10 seconds at this step.
- Where do I actually send the letters?
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This service is invite-only for now: the link to send messages is added to every message sent through the service.
If you really want to try it, send an e-mail to beta@lazypost.net.
- Is my letter there yet?
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A letter tracker is available for the truly impatient 🤪. Head on over to the in-transit map. The catch is: you can see all the letters, but you can't search for one in particular.
- Where is the code?
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The backend and frontend are open-source and available on a GitHub repository.
