I can’t remember the last time I received a nice handwritten letter in the post from someone; all I get is a surfeit of bills and credit-card offers. This makes two products aimed at ending our need for paper-based mail sound appealing.

Confusingly, one offers to put my physical address online, while the other is an online service offering me a physical address somewhere else, as a destination for snail mail that will be scanned and made available to me over the web.