Send New Year’s greeting postcards to your Mixi friends
Want to participate in the Japanese custom of sending New Year’s greeting postcards to a friend, but can’t remember his/her address? If you and your friend are members of the Japanese social networking site Mixi, you might be able to send that postcard anyway!
Nikkei TrendyNet reports that Mixi is going to launch a special postcard service that allows users to send their friends New Year’s greeting postcards. Mixi users who have entered their mailing address can choose to keep that information private and Mixi will act as a middle man handling requests to mail postcards to that user. Most postcards will cost about 98 yen to create and send, but there is also a 48 yen option for cheapskates willing to send their friend a postcard with an advertisement on it.
Those interested in the service should bookmark mixi-nenga.jp and check it when it launches at the end of November.
[hat tip to Darin]
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