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Re:Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison P... by sstradling on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @01:36PM (#9258092)
I like this. I would love to see it expanded to work for migrant families (maybe also a less extortionate method for sending remittances back home) too.
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Re:Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison P... by Kalium on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @02:05PM (#9258311)
Depends on where they want to send the remittance to. You're not going to get that for places like Somalia.
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Re:Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison P... by icebraining on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @07:35PM (#9260322)
Why not? Somalia already receives $1.3B/year in remittances, so clearly it can be done. Maybe it's already as cheap as it can be, but maybe not.
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Re:Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison P... by Kalium on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:21PM (#9264878)
Al-Shabaab.
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Re:Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison P... by sstradling on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @03:49PM (#9258975)
True, but Central America is a good place to start.
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