Staying in a mundane apartment block, and have to trudge a long way through stairs, lift and front compound space, just check your mail from the collective mail box? Let us not even talk about the dampening journey back to our room, especially when those dastardly overdue bills have arrived instead of tax refunds. However, solutions always come in simple means with the help of modern technology. And the rest; leave it to the Japanese to come up with something potently practical. The result is the Mailbox Sentry, a gadget that automatically sends you an alert, when something has been deposited on your post.

Also known as Posto no Mihariban in Japanese, the simplistic device consists of two functional components, the antenna and transmitter that needs to be set up inside the flapping lid of your mail box, and a receiver that receives the signal (with a range of 100 m) when something has been deposited on your name.

So, from the working perspective, you have to keep the lightweight 100 g receiver in your room. It has a built-in system that allows it to clock the number of times stuff has been deposited in your post in the mailbox. It has a 9V battery capacity for counting and showing around 1500 mail arrivals, after which it can be charged by an AC adapter. As for pricing, the bantam contraption will set you back by $93.

Via: JapanTrendShop