.Do you get those blue envelopes full of coupons in the mail once a month or so? Valpak, the company distributing local coupons by mail, is now delivering them by iPhone.
A free app from the Apple App Store gives you “instant point of purchase redemption” of coupons. How does it work?
- Access more than 17,000 offers
- Search by categories of dining, auto, beauty, health, shops, leisure, home, professional and general
- Use your phone’s GPS to locate savings around you
- Automatically sort results by distance
- Click on a coupon and get directions
- View multiple discounts
- Tap business phone numbers making it easy to call for more information
How much paper mail might this affect? Well, for 41 years Valpak has distributed their blue envelopes. Each year 20 billion offers are sent to 45 million homes across North America.
So where will all that paper go?
Watch a new film soon to be released called Between the Folds and see.
The award-winning documentary chronicles the stories of ten fine artists and intrepid theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees – all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paperfolders.
As they converge on the unlikely medium of origami, these artists and scientists reinterpret the world in paper, and bring forth a bold mix of sensibilities towards art, expressiveness, creativity and meaning. And, together these offbeat and provocative minds demonstrate the innumerable ways that art and science come to bear as we struggle to understand and honor the world around us – as artists, scientists, creators, collaborators, preservers, and simply curious beings.
