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Posted on Thu, Apr. 04, 2002 |
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Dead? Don't worry, you can still e-mail
Timelessmail.com will send out e-mails for customers after they've been permanently deleted from among the living. For an annual fee ranging from $12 to $24, depending on the level of service, people can create up to 60 individual e-mails that can each go to as many as 25 recipients upon the client's death. The e-mails are filed away, waiting for the client to be called to the great beyond. Timelessmail.com's message seems to have struck a chord -- its Web site at www.timelessmail.com had 102,714 hits in January, the latest data available. But it hasn't translated into a huge number of subscribers -- there have been only about three dozen signups. Company officials suspect that's because customers are reluctant to provide their Social Security numbers, on which the service hinges. The trigger mechanism that gets the e-mails sent is a person's Social Security number. Timelessmail.com has hired a company that each month purchases from the Social Security Administration a list of people who've died. The list is compared with Timelessmail's clients, and if there's a match, Walker will recheck before hitting the send button. Thus far, none of his customers has had his number come up.
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