This holiday season many online services are helping you skip the trip to the post office but still keeping the tradition of sending Christmas cards to relatives and friends.
Each site provides it’s own service but each still allow you to keep each card you send personal by giving you the option to import your own pictures.
Shutterfly have their cards starting at 40 cents. Shutterfly provides different designs that allow you to customize your cards from rounding the corners to the color of the envelope to use. For an extra fee, Shutterfly, will even mail your cards for you. All you have to do is import your contact list either from excel, outlook or an iPhone, which is easier than writing each address individually.
Wanting to send some echo-friendly cards this year, Postable is the site for you. Starting at $2.50 dollars for their 100% recycled cards. You can select from different styles and even picking the handwriting, to let you give that extra personal touch.
And for those who are always on the go and don’t have time to sit at a computer, you can use Ink Cards. For just $2.00 dollars, the application lets you pick from over 500 designs for your holiday cards.
Uber’s New Policy
Many use Uber on daily but with the holidays coming more plan on using it as a way to get home from holiday parties. But some users are upset with the company. Uber has requested to track their riders for five minutes after the ride has ended. That has many riders feeling uneasy about the situation.
Riders want to know why the company wants to track them after the have stopped using their service. Molly Twining,who uses Uber sometimes five times a week doesn’t see why a company, like Uber, should know your whereabouts when your no longer in their care.
Twining, isn’t the only one with this concern. According to Claire Gartland, director of the EPIC Consumer Privacy Project, “a step like what Uber has taken her really represents an incremental erosion of the privacy that users have.” There was group that field a complaint in 2015 with the Federal Trade Commission charging Uber with “unfair and deceptive trade practices.”
The car service’s new policy has renewed the debate over how much access digital services, including companies like Google and Amazon, should have, and who should regulate them.
You can choose to turn off your location and enter your address manually if you don’t want to be a part of Ubers new tracking policy.
