"Introducing the way to experience the mail you love. The good old fashion kind that you can touch with your hands... smell with your nose."

so what is google doing to do with all the email addresses they do collect today from people signing up?

Voice sounds familiar... Is it Kelsey Grammer? EDIT: Yup

I participated in the alpha-testing of the box. True story.

I would totally buy this. Checking the mailbox and finding it empty is one of the things that annoys me most in everyday life.

Ah that takes me back! I once worked on a concept called address4life which was about digitizing real snail-mail - meaning you never had to change addresses and could weed out spam etc. The project stalled in the end because one of the co-founders turned out to be an undercover sabotage-ist! Pity, as some of the things in that video would have come true if we'd got it off the ground :-)

Happy April fools everybody :)

That was fun :D