Excuse the shameless plug for the FutureWorld Group here, but this is a fascinating little scenario. With all the Stamps.com ads I'm hearing on international podcasts, it's pretty evident that the world of the Post Office is under serious disruption. And we've always been looking for a mainstream application for 3D printing.
What do you do with a business that has a massive footprint and an archaic product/service offering? A business mashup. What do you think?
Dateline: 9 November 2014
They're becoming high-tech 3D print shops
Five years ago everyone was predicting the collapse of postal services from Argentina to Zimbabwe. After all, the use of 'snailmail' had dwindled to a trickle and postal services were incurring massive losses.
So who would have believed a bold leap by PostPrint, the newly-renamed postal service of Holland, would change that future?
Lead by the Dutch example, postal services all over the world are running 3D printing centers in their &…
What do you do with a business that has a massive footprint and an archaic product/service offering? A business mashup. What do you think?
Dateline: 9 November 2014
They're becoming high-tech 3D print shops
Five years ago everyone was predicting the collapse of postal services from Argentina to Zimbabwe. After all, the use of 'snailmail' had dwindled to a trickle and postal services were incurring massive losses.
So who would have believed a bold leap by PostPrint, the newly-renamed postal service of Holland, would change that future?
Lead by the Dutch example, postal services all over the world are running 3D printing centers in their &…