Addy

What if you could send a package to an email address? Or an OpenID? What if you went to an OpenID provider such as claimID.com and entered your physical mailing address? And what if I sent mail to claimID.com/yourname and the post office pinged claimID.com to resolve the physical adddress? What if you didn't need to tell Amazon your shipping address, you just needed to sign in with your OpenID? And what if you moved tomorrow, and you changed your address on your claimID profile, and all your mail just went to the right place? What if you had one communications identity -- online and off -- that you had complete control over?

This is an idea I've been throwing around in my head for a long time. At one point I was calling it Addy. It's something I've discussed with Martin. It's something I've told a lot of people about. It's something I'd like to build but I don't know where to start. But I know where I want to get: getting a letter from my grandma addressed simply to addy.com/grourk.