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I signed up for it for my apartment... and starting getting e-mails with images of the envelope for every single piece of mail for every resident of the whole building to me.

Huge privacy fail. (And yes, the USPS knows about each individual apartment, delivering mail into a separate USPS box per apartment...)

I was trying it out and it seems to be sort of the inverse for me - it showed only one piece of mail on a day when there were several.

This also helps if you worry about the "postman who stops delivering most mail" kind of problem. Not that I've ever had an issue. I mostly use it as a "you should actually go pick up your mail today, there's something worth getting in it for a change" reminder.

I get this, too. It's pretty neat.