Well anybody who has spent any time with me knows, I come up with all sorts of wacky business ideas all the time. Sometimes the ideas have some value or could be done, but most of the time they're just plain ridiculous.

This idea I think has some merit, I don't know if there is any money to be made, well at least not directly by me. Nonetheless, I'd still like to see this one done.

Basically, the idea is based on this problem:

Sometimes when I buy something online the seller doesn't send me the shipping information / tracking number,. As a result, I have no way of knowing when it's going to show up on my front door, which of course raises the chances that someone will walk by, see and it'll just dissapear.

Right now I am waiting for Adobe to send me a copy of it's Master Collection (one of the perks of being an Adobe User Group Manager, AZCFUG.org). Unfortunately, they didn't send any of us our tracking numbers. So no one knows when they are going to show up.

What I would love to have is some sort of opted in, reverse notification system with all of the major US shipping carriers (UPS, DHL and FedEx).

In concept, this system would work like this:

People who often receive packages to their home or office could apply to each carrier to have their address stored in a database so that if any package came in destined for that address it would get flagged and you would get notified that a package has been sent to you. Obviously, there would need to be some sort of address verification process required to set up your account, but it would be so worth it.