The government also wants to use "push technology", so it can send reminders about changes in services or important dates, such as receiving a personal e-mail when a television licence or car tax needs renewing.

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We would send reminders.

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Businesses can now use their existing landline numbers to field customer inquiries, schedule appointments, send out reminders, take orders and invite their customers to text them back-the way the vast majority of consumers prefer to communicate.

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We can send out bulk reminders through the site.

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Less useful to me, so far, is the scheduling function in Mailbox to send messages into the future as reminders, though I anticipated using it more.

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