Question 1

What exactly is mailbox.bot?

Accepted Answer

Inbound + outbound postal mail for AI agents

Outbound: Mission critical business postal mail as a service - have your AI agent send us outbound mail orders through the API & MCP. OpenClaw, Cursor, Devin, Codex, Hermes, or your IDE of choice: quickstart copy and paste the /api-docs and /mcp-install documentation in your agent ide or cli and get it up to speed ASAP to start sending mail. All document pages are printed with our high-quality, high-resolution equipment. Our team takes a picture of every single mail item on the outside of the envelope with the enclosed documents visible, tracked, and logged for your agent to reference with carrier tracking numbers. Nothing slips through the cracks ever. You can search all sent mail orders by human UX in the /dashboard or have your agent search through the API if you ever need to pull something up by tracking number, date, or sent to address.

Inbound: mailbox.bot enables an AI agent to be associated with a physical mailing address and reached in the real world. It is an early step toward giving an agent practical form and a shareable identity surface, unlocking trust and scalability. The result is a place humans, businesses, and other agents can interact with through mail, documents, notices, and eligible packages. Live today: agents and software send certified mail, letters, notices, document packets, and postcards by dashboard, REST API, or MCP, and turn mail from an address you already use into structured context by forwarding photos, scans, PDFs, and notes. Separately, reservations are open for mailbox.bot-issued street addresses with mailbox numbers for approved accounts after identity verification, USPS Form 1583 where required, and facility approval.

Question 2

Can I Get a Postal Mailing Address for My AI Agent?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A verified human or business owner can reserve a real postal mailing and package address for an AI agent: a physical street-address surface with a mailbox number that the verified owner controls and the agent can monitor. Today, that address can be a business address, PO box, home business address, office, registered agent, or virtual mailbox; mailbox.bot is live for outbound physical mail and existing-address inbound context. For a mailbox.bot-issued street address plus mailbox number, reservations are open; approved accounts begin receiving addresses August 2026 after identity verification, USPS Form 1583 where required, and facility approval. The agent can monitor scans, photos, PDFs, inbound context, and eligible package events, then draft or send outbound replies through MCP/API workflows with rules, webhooks, approvals, sandbox keys, tracking, proof, and audit events. Example format: Attn: My Hermes Agent, Mailbox #128, 123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701. This is example copy only, not an address issued today.

Question 3

What is available today?

Accepted Answer

Today, mailbox.bot supports outbound physical mail and inbound context from scans, PDFs, photos, virtual mailbox notices, provider notices, notes, and existing addresses. Agents and software can send letters, certified mail, document packets, notices, postcards, and batch mail through the dashboard, REST API, MCP, A2A, and webhooks.

Question 4

Why does this save time and money?

Accepted Answer

Most teams spend money at the paper edge: checking mailboxes, opening envelopes, scanning pages, naming PDFs, copying details into a CRM, emailing status updates, printing replies, buying postage, and chasing proof. mailbox.bot turns that paper surface area into workflow context. Physical mail, packages, email, phone, CRM, ticketing, and correspondence systems can connect through scans, OCR, extracted fields, MCP/API replies, webhooks, approvals, tracking, proof, and audit events, so the full chain becomes observable and traceable instead of stitched together by hand.

Question 5

Can the agent receive packages?

Accepted Answer

Eligible package workflows are part of the managed receiving-address product and follow the same approved address-issuance path. Today, agents can still use mailbox.bot for outbound physical mail and inbound context from scans, PDFs, photos, notes, and addresses the operator already controls.

Question 6

What complete workflow does mailbox.bot enable?

Accepted Answer

mailbox.bot bridges the paper surface area of the world into agent-readable context. A physical street address or existing address can produce arrival photos, scans, OCR, extracted fields, package events, and inbound context. The agent or workflow can use that context to draft the next email, phone follow-up, CRM update, support ticket, legal response, certified letter, package action, or outbound postal reply.

Question 7

Can this connect to email, phone, CRM, and correspondence workflows?

Accepted Answer

Yes. mailbox.bot is designed so physical street addresses, receiving workflows, outbound mail, and packages can wire into the same systems that already manage email, phone calls, CRM records, tickets, documents, and correspondence. MCP/API tools handle the agent actions; webhooks, approvals, sandbox keys, tracking, delivery proof, photos, and audit events make the physical chain observable and traceable.

Question 8

What happens after a mail item becomes context?

Accepted Answer

The agent can classify the mail, extract entities and deadlines, connect it to a CRM or ticket, draft a response, request approval, send outbound mail, and preserve the full lineage from inbound scan to outbound proof and webhook events.

Question 9

Is this built for OpenClaw or Hermes any AI agent harness or protocol?

Accepted Answer

Yes. mailbox.bot is harness-agnostic. OpenClaw, Hermes, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Goose, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, LlamaIndex, custom workers, and other AI agent harnesses can use mailbox.bot through MCP, REST API, A2A, OpenClaw discovery, and webhooks. Also your IDE such as Cursor or Devin work seamlessly. The preview name "My Hermes Agent" is an example, not a requirement. Outbound physical mail and existing-address inbound context are live today.

Question 10

What does the mailbox.bot MCP server do?

Accepted Answer

MCP server lets AI agents send physical mail. With mailbox.bot MCP tools, an agent can prepare outbound letters and certified mail, run sandbox tests, apply human approval gates, receive webhook events, and use inbound scans or PDFs as context for replies.

Question 11

How does an agent send physical mail today?

Accepted Answer

The agent can add mailbox.bot as an MCP server, call the REST API, use A2A, or trigger a dashboard-approved workflow. It submits the document, recipient address, mail class, metadata, cost controls, and approval policy. mailbox.bot then handles print, postage, mail handoff, tracking, and webhook events.

Question 12

Does outbound mail need human approval?

Accepted Answer

It can. Use requires_approval=true, key-level force approval, sandbox keys, dry runs, and max-cost headers to keep agents from sending or spending without the operator's policy. Sensitive mail can pause for human review before live fulfillment.

Question 13

What does it cost?

Accepted Answer

Email forwarding intake and outbound access start at $0/mo. A 1-page USPS First-Class Mail letter is a $1.00 flat price; other mail uses the configured handling + $0.30/page B&W printing + carrier postage estimate, with private-carrier base estimate details in cost_breakdown. Color printing adds $0.40/page, so color pages are $0.70/page before handling and postage. Reserved mailbox.bot-issued mailing and package addresses are planned at $10/mo for approved accounts.

Question 14

Do I need to use the API?

Accepted Answer

No. You can manage the workflow from the dashboard, then add API calls or webhooks when you are ready. Teams that want automation can connect immediately, and teams that prefer a UI can start there and grow into the API later.

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