Everyone loves receiving gifts. It's the thought that counts! Or something like that. However, most families these days tend to spread out across the country and so we end up shipping gifts to each other. But they are delivered in a boring brown box with a generic label on them where the return address is Amazon or another online store. And they might have ordered something else from Amazon or that online store too. And therefore they might open the gift before they are supposed to. It turns out that there is a simple solution that is pretty cool. You can't get away from the boring brown box but you CAN do something about the shipping label on the boring brown box. Address labels typically look like: First & Last Name Address line 1 Optional address line 2 City, State ZIP , Country I've bolded the parts that same-country shipping companies actually pay attention to. Let's hack the address label to make it do something useful for us that won't a
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