PieterPost MCP - Connect your AI agent to postal mail
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PieterPost MCP connects AI agents to postal mail. From ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Claude Code, or any MCP client, agents can prepare letters and postcards, use Mailbook contacts, upload attachments or postcard images, create checkout links, and track orders. It brings PieterPost online mail, API, and payment-link workflows into agent tools.
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MCP for postal mail is a pretty novel idea! I can imagine a use-case where you'd want your agent to send out postal advertisements or have it send your friends and family holiday cards or even handle the shipping for small online businesses. I'm curious, is letter/package tracking also included w/ the PieterPost MCP tool? Because that could also be an interesting feature to have.
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@monolithdread Thanks Jordan. Holiday cards are exactly one of those use cases that make this feel useful fast. Tracking depends a bit on the mail type and destination, but when tracking is available we show it and the MCP can check order status too. What would you try first?
@pieterpostcom I'd probably use it for holiday or even automating birthday cards first! haha nice product!
Uploaded a letter from my phone yesterday and it showed up at my mom's place two days later, tracking included. Genuinely didn't expect the whole process to feel that painless.
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@mihriban1580118 Love hearing this. That painless feeling is exactly what we are trying to get right: upload or write it, check it, and then it just shows up. What did you send her?
Finally tried Pieter Post for a birthday card to my grandma and it worked like a charm. The whole process took under a minute and the handwriting on the envelope actually looks legit.
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@atakank18468 This is the best kind of test. Grandma birthday cards are secretly the perfect use case. Very happy the envelope passed the vibe check too.
Two things for me. First, the fully resolved postal address read back verbatim, plus which Mailbook entry it matched, since 'John in London' quietly resolving to the wrong saved contact is the failure I'd never catch. Second, an idempotency key on the send, so if the agent's tool call times out and retries I get one postcard and not two. Duplicate physical sends are the money version of a double-submit.
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@dipankar_sarkar Really appreciate this. Address readback and making sure retries do not create duplicate mail are exactly the kind of sharp edges we want to make boring. Thanks for trying it and writing this out, we will make this much better soon.
Love seeing MCP tools that result in real physical objects. Good stuff!
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@hsearcy Thanks Houston. Same here, MCP gets a lot more fun when it leaves the screen a little.
Gotta say, the branding here is genuinely charming. That name "Pieter Post" with the classic envelope vibe really sells the whole concept before you even read what it does. Smart move leaning into the postal heritage while modernizing the actual experience.
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@dnd1112360 Thank you, this means a lot. We wanted it to feel like mail, not another cold tool. Pieter Post doing old-school postal work from the browser is basically the whole thing.
That stamp-licking problem is such a classic annoyance, love how clean and focused the whole concept is. The branding feels really thoughtful too, the name and tone make it feel friendly instead of corporate.
Really nice concept, way more convenient than running to the post office. The way it just works behind the scenes and you forget it's even mail feels seamless.
Loved how quick it was to send a letter from my phone, and the tracking kept me from worrying if it actually arrived.
The postal-mail MCP angle is weirdly practical. I’d be curious how you handle confirmation before an agent sends anything physical — approval queue, spend cap, address validation? That boundary feels more important than the API itself.