Just Another "Yo" or a Useful Mobile Tool?

PHOENIX - Nov. 19, 2014 - PRLog -- When the slim-on-features YO app got $1.2 million in seed money, people stood up and took notice. Since then, a handful of useful features have been added to keep the interest of current and potential users. Now a new app is on the horizon and it too was developed with singular functionality. It's called Mailbox Tagger and it's an Android app that "tags" your mailbox when the postman delivers the mail.

The premise is simple enough: In a neighborhood where snail mail is delivered to multiple households at a cluster of mailboxes, the first person to check for mail on a particular day alerts his neighbors who share the same cluster by tagging the mailbox on his mobile device using the Mailbox Tagger app. Anyone who checks the app from that moment forward will see that the mailbox was tagged and so the mail carrier has come and gone.

The developers of this app claim that through mailbox tagging, many unfruitful trips to the mailbox can be averted. People can get expected checks deposited (or cashed) sooner. Fluctuating carrier schedules can be detected by a change in the usual time of day that the mailbox is tagged. Instead of checking a mailbox that can be as much as a city block away, you only need to check your smartphone. Whether all this will come to fruition just from mailbox tagging remains to be seen. But no one expected the YO app to hit it as big as it did.

Mailbox Tagger works in conjunction with a website called CheckMyMailbox.net, where active taggers are required to register both themselves and the mailbox cluster they've chosen to monitor. All potential taggers must register with some basic information, but anyone with an Android device can anonymously view the tag status of any mailbox on the system.

Mailbox Tagger and CheckMyMailbox.net were both developed by Joe Gruberman of Bronck's Park Productions, creator of LimitUpOnline, a futures trading simulator. Both are 100% free to try and use, however, until that windfall of seed money miraculously appears, it's expected that third-party ads will be an integral part of the feature list. An iOS version is in the works.