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# Google Wants You To Use Gmail To Pay Your Bills

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## Transcript

Like it or not, email isn't going away just yet. But if we have to keep using the antiquated messaging platform, it might as well be more useful, right? A new report from Re / code claims Google is working on a payment system that would allow its users to receive and pay bills. All from within their gmail inbox. The outlet says Google the service Pony Express internally but the name could change in the future. Manifest Destiny to unite the continent if only for a brief time in order to guarantee that it couldn't be done. Yeah. Not quite that Pony Express. Google is touting its Pony Express as the future of paper mail which apparently just means mail without the paper.

To use Pony Express, Gmail users will need to link up a bank account or credit card, confirm their identity, think social security number, driver's license number, etc ., and sign up for paperless billing. How exactly users link their utility, cable, and cell phone bills to Google's Pony Express is still unclear. But will likely be fleshed out when or if the company announces the new service. Based on the detailed report from Re / code though, we're betting on when. And considering the potential benefits for Google, the move makes sense. Consider this from BGR. Pony Express would give Google access to even more personal information than it obtains when users sign up.

Up for an account allowing for more specific targeted advertising. But most importantly, most importantly as a writer for Engadget notes, more than 425 million people use Gmail, so Google could stand to make some not- exactly- trivial money if it decided to charge either us users. Or its service provider buddies for the privilege of full- on digital mail delivery. If Pony Express does see the light of day, Recode says we'll get our first look in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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