The post office will now email you photos of your mail before its delivered
Informed Delivery is a service from the United States Postal Service that scans the outside of your mail and shows you the images each morning before the mail is actually delivered.
While the USPS first started testing the free service more than a year ago, its finally rolling out (almost) nationwide for residential addresses. Now its available in almost every major metropolitan area, and by April 14th will be available in most of the remaining ZIP Codes covering the U.S.
To make sure you arent getting anyone elses mail, USPS sends you a physical letter with a verification code when you sign up.
While you still wont be able to see the inside of your mail until it arrives, it should be helpful to know if an important letter is being delivered today or not.
Right now the service only provides black and white scans of regular letter-sized mail. But in the future they may add other flat-sized pieces like magazines. Subscribers get an email digest each morning with images of the first 10 pieces of mail, and a link to view the rest if they received more than 10.
