I've got mail on Jul 21, 2015!

“Dear FutureMe,

If you've made it this long, you've beaten the "Darwinian law" ... and haven't died from breast cancer, like your mother did at age 47.

(Of course, who knows... with the way you drive, you probably shouldn't be worried about breast cancer at all).

I hope you're still around to read this!”

Love”

(Written Sun, Dec 18, 2005, to be delivered Tue Jul 21, 2015)

Thus reads a mail in FutureMe.org, a website which allows people to send e-mails to themselves and others for delivery years in the future.

FutureMe is the handiwork of Matt Sly and Jay Patrikios, who started the website in 2002, based on the principle that memories are less accurate than emails. For them, the idea was born from the simple school essays one used to write on his or her future.

The website lets individuals send messages for delivery as much as 30 years from now. Till date, FutureMe has initiated 144780 letters written to the future and many more are coming in.

Quite a few of the letters posted in the site are queries on whether certain aspirations were fulfilled at that future point of time.

There is a lot of doubt whether one will ever receive this mail in 2009 or 2015, considering issues like ever changing technologies (you might not have today's for of emails, 10 to 15 years from now!) the website might not exist, your email addresses might change or cease to exist, or you yourself would not be alive to read the mail. With regard to address change, FutureMe stresses that the future e-mail destination can be changed to accommodate a new address.

However, as many blogs and articles on the venture puts it, if it actually works, you can preserve the ideas you have today, the dreams you had of your future, your thoughts, resolutions, and memories. You can look back and see if you've achieved your goals. It is like a time capsule, which might bring in a warm nostalgia in the future.

FutureMe.org is a free email service, at the same time you are free to send in any forms of supportive donations.

FutureMe was featured in Ars Electronica in Austria, the largest museum of digital art in the world and was also chosen as Yahoo! site of the day in September 2003. This future mail service has also brought in many players in the same field including Forbes.com's email time capsule.

Forbe's new venture, which collected over 140,000 letters written by their readers to themselves between October 24, 2005, and November 30, 2005, is being set by the company to deliver them up to 20 years later.

Interestingly, while Forbes.com in an article on their new venture, snubbed FutureMe as a small website which will schedule an email for future delivery (Simply scheduling an e-mail for future delivery is pretty easy--just a matter of writing it and setting a send date in the future. Some e-mail clients will do it for you, and small Web sites like futureme.org will take over the task as well. Forbes.com, December 1, 2005), FutureMe accused Forbes for copying them.

Could be true or false, but it looks like the Forbes.com article knowingly or unknowingly, brought FutureMe.org into the limelight!