Important BufferBox Update

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I am very disappointed to see this. I have been using BufferBox since the beginning, and it provided immense convenience for both myself, and all of my friends who used the service as well. I was worried that something like this would have happened when they were acquired by Google, and now it has :(

Billion $ company buys an awesome product -&gt; Billion $ company shuts down the awesome product.<p>Typical day. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Huh, I only hear of them as they&#x27;re shutting down; I&#x27;ve wanted something like this in the past. Interestingly the German and Danish postal services have been offering such a service for a while, partly out of a desire to reduce their delivery costs (it reduces the number of packages that have to be lugged out to individual doors).<p>Germany: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Packstation</a><p>Denmark: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fda.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPakkeboksen" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.google.com&#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;pre...</a>

There&#x27;s still swapbox, growing fast.

Is this Whatsapp&#x27;s future? Stay tuned.

$37 million dollars to waste...