Gallerie Japan is a great blog to know about the newest QR Code developments in Japan and it shows that QR Code are useable for far more then mobile marketing.



This is convenience supreme.

The home delivery system in Japan is already well advanced but yesterday I noticed a new development in the form of a letterbox recently installed at a new house in our neighborhood.
The box is to secure deliveries and includes a time & signature receipt stamp for the driver.
[...] I missed a delivery at home a few weeks ago. When I got home, waiting in the front door letterbox was a card with a QR Code. I scanned it using my mobile phone (with a QR Code Reader); it displayed options such as a link directly to the driver’s phone, hotline to head-office or hyperlink to the delivery company website.

I wonder when UPS or Swiss Post will come out with something similar. And I hope even more that they will be smart enough to take a ISO-Standard code and one that is immediately recognizable as a mobile code. Well, we got then only one choice here - and it's the same as in Japan;)

See also:
Freewheeling thoughts about CRM and social interactions with QRSS (12.9.2006)
Yamato Shipment Tracking with QR Code