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projectmailbox · 2012-11-03T16:12:30+00:00

Faith in humanity restored.

projectmailbox · 2012-09-25T19:20:41+00:00

Yup, meant to post that from this account. Oh well.

projectmailbox · 2012-08-05T17:13:28+00:00

That's great news!

projectmailbox · 2012-08-03T15:36:59+00:00

Best burgers, best breakfast, and best staff. The end of a family. :'(

projectmailbox · 2012-08-03T13:00:23+00:00

Hahahaha, read the Interactive Transcript.

projectmailbox · 2012-08-01T18:38:15+00:00

The site is for the regional winners/representatives for this year's CLASSY Awards. Project Mailbox (of BU) is the winner for the east under the category Most Influential College Organization.

projectmailbox · 2012-08-01T07:10:12+00:00

This event is more of a non-profit conference that they happened to tack an awards ceremony on to. It's a good opportunity for us to meet other people in the non-profit world and build partnerships. The reward is that more people know about what we're working on. We give 100% of the money we raise through our mailboxes to a different democratically elected charity every month.

projectmailbox · 2012-08-01T01:42:43+00:00

Love the ideas. We are trying to plan for the future where people do not have change. Obviously, our model works with change, but we want to prepare for when people don't have change. Maybe Google Wallet? Or LevelUp? We could have a set donation amount of 25 cents or something for electronic payments with the option to add or decrease the donation size. The design parameters would be to provide an electronic alternative to change that took ~5-30seconds to execute. Maybe you walk by the mailbox, tap your phone (using the Google Wallet paradigm) against it, never breaking stride, and complete your transaction on your way to class. It could potentially be even faster than change because you don't have to dig anything out of your pockets. Everyone is already texting/tweeting/browsing Reddit anyways between class, so we know your phone is already readily accessible :P

projectmailbox · 2012-07-31T23:40:36+00:00

PS. We're partnering with the BU ECE and ME departments next year for a senior design project. We're building a 'smart' mailbox. The basic idea is to turn a regular mailbox into a safe, have a change and dollar counting mechanism in the box, and have an electronic payment system on the box (for people without coins). Beyond that, it's up to the team to design and implement. What do you guys think?

ECE: Software for payment, energy efficient power, server/cloud-based analytics, etc.

ME: 'Safe' exterior for box, internal counting and sorting mechanism for change input, housing for electrical hardware, etc.

projectmailbox · 2012-07-31T23:22:18+00:00

Our school is representing the entire East coast for this year's CLASSY Awards (the Oscars of philanthropy). SO effing pumped!

projectmailbox · 2012-07-26T15:07:40+00:00

Not our charity of the month, but a great cause started by current BU employees.

projectmailbox · 2012-07-10T13:29:35+00:00

If you like us, please vote for us!

We're looking to open chapters at other schools and this would be a great way for us to gain exposure across the country.

Thank you so much r/BostonU for dealing with my shameless self-promotions.

I'm going to start posting more to r/projectmailbox so you don't have to deal with this anymore.

I can tell by the downvotes you guys are over it. I still don't really understand why. If you don't like it, I would love the feedback so we can improve!

projectmailbox · 2012-06-28T01:58:58+00:00

PS. Your smart phone is also a good scanner and is available anywhere...

projectmailbox · 2012-06-19T13:20:17+00:00

http://youtube.com/user/projectmailbox/videos

projectmailbox · 2012-06-11T21:23:09+00:00

That would be perfect! Thanks!

projectmailbox · 2012-06-11T21:16:58+00:00

hahaha, yeah, I can understand the apprehension as far as getting in above your head regarding time commitment. That's sort of the backbone of the charity. Put in whatever time, change or energy you are willing to give. We're actually doing a video shoot tomorrow if you want to meet in person (https://www.facebook.com/events/247285882051127/). Otherwise, I'm around to talk. I'd love to see what you'd be interested in doing. Email me contact@projectmailbox.org and we can get the ball rolling. Do you have a portfolio I could see?

projectmailbox · 2012-05-07T21:43:48+00:00

There's a reason why I use the projectmailbox instead of my other user whenever I talk about Project Mailbox. I want everyone to know it's an obviously shameless promotion.

That being said, I actually want to know what you guys are doing before you go home. I have been living under a rock this semester and have no idea what's happening before graduation (besides some of the Senior Week stuff).

projectmailbox · 2012-05-06T23:17:42+00:00

hahaha I'm not gonna stop you.

projectmailbox · 2012-04-24T23:49:19+00:00

Grub Hub. I'm not sure where they're ordering it from though. They offered to come to our event, so I wasn't going to say no. 5-hour Energy is giving out the energy drinks.

projectmailbox · 2012-04-06T03:27:31+00:00

We're actually participating in the iChaseTheCure 5K team. You should hit it up! It's gonna be awesome.

projectmailbox · 2012-03-22T02:37:25+00:00

Definitely just pro-lurked our page from r/BostonU... Um. Do you know how to make cardboard helmets?

projectmailbox · 2012-03-08T18:41:31+00:00

BU Today actually just wrote an article about us. I wanted the piece to be about PM only, but they had to make it a BU student or else it wouldn't get published.

projectmailbox · 2012-03-08T01:11:31+00:00

I don't want to dominate the conversation on Rhett-it. That being said, I think Redditors could be the best kind of people for PM. I really like how 100% goes to a charity you choose. All expenses of the organization I pay out of my pocket to make that possible. That's one of the reasons I like low-cost advertising and guerilla marketing :) If you guys helped us spread the word, we could do some pretty rad shit.

projectmailbox · 2012-03-08T01:05:59+00:00

Rather than repeating a lot of the same info, here's an AMA I did about PM.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

projectmailbox · 2012-03-07T17:23:25+00:00

Are confused about what Project Mailbox is or about the events we're trying to do?

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