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You'v Got (Registered) Mail! In China there are many strange ways how things work due to the number of people. In smaller countries it's easy to built nice systems but they tend to cost too much per user and often wont happen. But this is how a real post office service should work. I ordered a car part (a drive shaft) from internet (COD). Two days later I got message on my mobile phone telling I should go to the post office after 4PM, So I did and showed the text message to the clerk. She typed the code to her computer and went to get the package, then I slid my ATM card for payment and walked out. The whole process took 3 minutes. It would work even better if I could send the text message to her via infrared which in turn would verify the receiver and charge my phone account for the payment. Unfortunatelly the vendor likes to get paid immediatelly and there is no link between the bank and phone company. Phone payment works with some smaller purchases though. This is how the system works in Finland and most likely in the other Scandinavian countries too. |