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Forgot to send your nephew his Christmas present for this year? Quickly order one of these Plane Mail postcards to send him and quickly place the blame on the US Postal Service. These postcards are made out of wood and pop out into an easy-to-assemble balsa wood glider. Just like the old days!

The best part is that you can write all over the side of the postcard with your messages of love. I’d say this is better than getting cash in the mail. It’s equally fun and a lot more creative. It’ll run you around eight bucks.

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Just because the USPS tracking system happens to be as unreliable as a women’s period with PCOS, you might need a little extra push to ensure your snail mail still arrives at its proper destination. This way, at least it’s the right person who calls the cops on you for stalking. The GPS Mail Logger is just the kind of thing to save you the tracking fee.

Measuring only a quarter of an inch thick, and compatible with Google Earth, The GPS Mail Logger from Brickhouse Security fits easily into a typical envelope, and weighs little enough to save the expenditure for an extra stamp. After the letter moves on its way, you can watch the precise path it takes to reach its destination. Track your mail on your terms for the low-low price of $695.99. (more…)

We were pretty psyched to get an early peek at the R2D2 mailboxes that the USPS distributed through the U.S. to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series, along with Star Wars themed postage stamps. Some creative Flickr user decided to make the best of the themed boxes and scored some interestingness points on Flickr because of it.

Sheer genius! Next we need to see a bitch fight between the R2D2 mailbox and a C3PO phallic toting trading card. — Andrew Dobrow

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Before their emergence into public use, we told you about R2D2 mailboxes celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars. To continue the commemorative campaign, now emerges the Star Wars stamps to go along with the mailboxes. The official Star Wars stamp series comes with 15 different designs, all featuring familiar faces from the movies.

And if that wasn’t nerdy enough, there is a poll being held at the site for USPS Jedi Master to choose the favorite stamp design, which will be featured on its own sheet once the poll is over. We voted for the Yoda stamp. We’ve always held a place in our heart for the little old green guy. So far, there has been 25,164 votes cast with 55 days to go. You can expect much more. — Andrew Dobrow

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About two weeks ago we reported on these R2D2 themed mailboxes in honor of Star Wars’ 30th anniversary being celebrated this year. Following-up on the story, like the well balanced journalists that we are, here are some photos of the droid R2 units being used in the wild, rather than sitting in a depot waiting to be placed. We believe these were seen in Washington D.C. It’s cool to see them out in the playing field. Much like collectible stamps, perhaps mailbox containers will be the next widely used USPS service. — Andrew Dobrow

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