Welcome to iFlypost - iPhone App Coming May 2012! (BETA)

The iFLYPOST   App and service manages and presents your contacts and birthday events & allows you to send a real signed and headed standard format letter directly from your phone.  It seamlessly interacts with Apple's standard Contacts, Events, Reminders, Photo, Notes and Email software so its a breeze to use with your existing address book and data. Not only can you send a letter from anywhere to anywhere in the world by post from the UK, you can despatch a same day telegram to an increasing number of UK locations. 

 The iFlypost flow is intuitive and flexible, you can start with the address details of the person you are sending the letter to, add your own details including your signature and header, type in or paste the message, review the whole letter and then pay for it with your PayPal account, a phone based PIN or by using most credit & debit cards.

 The iFlyPost App and Service is produced by B.H.O.S.S Microsystems Limited. All rights reserved.

iFlyPost App - Quick Guide

iFlypost is a Tab Bar based app. so you will always know which View you are in. Your data is held persistently so you can move between it and your other Apps without losing a letter in progress. This quick guide takes you through the basics. iFlyPost has an number of additional bells and whistles which are described in the full guide.
iFlypost Home View

HOME: 

Start here 

In the HOME: view you can choose a New Letter or continue with the last letter you were working (iFlyspost keeps you most recent work in memory if you are interupted. Once you have sent and paid for a Letter it will appear in the Saved Letters area from where you can also email the letter. There are also buttons to iFlypost's Using iFlypost guide and information About iFlypost and BHOSS. At the bottom part of the screen iFlypost displays the currrent UK time and keeps you up to date in real-time with the next available Standard Collectiondate & time.

iFlypost From: View

FROM:

Sender + Signature +

Add your own details such as your name, address and company or load this information from your device's standard Apple Contacts via the Contact: button. Here you can create a Signature directly on your iPhone. Later you can position this anywhere in your letter in the MESSAGE: View. You can add a Business Name Header which will display at the top of the first page of your finished letter. You can access and amend the standard Address Book Notes.
iFlypost From: View

TO:      

Addressee - Reminders +

Add details such as the name, address and company of the person you wish to send your letter to or load this information from your iPhone's standard Contacts. You can view and change the Photo and Notes assocated with your contact. A tap on the email icon will kick-off an email and a tap on the phone icon will place a phone call  You can set your contact's Birthday here and set two reminders of this event.

Message View

MESSAGE:

Message - position Signature

Type or paste in your message here. You can touch the Enter key to enter paragraph breaks but otherwise just enter your words separated by spaces as necessary. Please note that full line and page formatting does not occur until the REVIEW View which will show you exactly how the printed letter will appear.Tweak the letter's appearance by moving back and forward between these two views. You can cut and paste from other sources as required. It is here that you can INSERT the signature at a single position in the letter. Note that you can compose a signature in the FROM: View. For security reason some characters are not allowed and will be filtered out by the App. at this stage.

Review View

REVIEW:... THEN POST IT!

View the Complete Letter

Here you can see what your letter will look like when it is printed out. If youare satisfied with the letter and wish to have it despatched or delivered touch the Send button - if not use the Tab Bar to navigate to the appropriate sectionof your letter.
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DESPATCH:

Letter or Telegram?

iFlypost automatically works out the current cost of posting or delivering your letter based on sender's residence, the destination and number of pages and presents you with the options available to you in terms of despatch, delay or delivery. Please note that the Royal Mail does not collect on Sundays or Bank Holidays - iFlypost automatically takes this into account. Please note that iFlypost Express "Telegraphic" Delivery is only available to certain UK addresses as displayed to you at this point based on the information you have supplied concerning the delivery address and time of day. Here you can decide to send the letter to catch the next collection date and time or delay sending the letter for up to a year or so. We usually accept a letter for posatge up until 18.00 Mondays to Fridays and up to Noon on Saturdays. In some parts of the UK a same day Telegram service is available during the day. If this service is available you will be presented with the option and details in the EXPRESS DELIVERY section.
Payment View

PAYMENT

Pay by Cards & PayPal

Mobile Express Checkout is the in-app purchasing system built into iFlypost, making it easy to pay for your letter. Please note that you do NOT have to have a Paypal account to pay for a letter. BHOSS/iFlypost does not retain any of your confidential  information during this process - this is between you and Paypal.
Successful Despatch

SUCCESS!

Letter despatched!

iFlypost acknowledges your payment and succesful receipt of your letter to BHOSS. If you have supplied a valide email addres, you should also receive an email from Paypal confirming payment to BHOSS. iFlypost only stores this letter on your iPhone but it is available to you from the iFlypost HOME View's Saved Letters View. If you wish to send an email of the letter in PDF format you can do so from the Saved Letter View.
Gustav Welsh tells of further developments

THANK YOU!

Further Developments

Gustav and all of us at BHOSS/iFlypost thank you for using this service. If you have a technical or payment problem please email us at service@bhoss.co.uk. You can send us feedback or suggestions to feedback@bhoss.co.uk. You can also send us a note during the Paypal Checkout experience itself. We hope to develop further services in the future. Please stay tuned and upload any updates to this release through the AppStore.