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What a brilliant idea, all the way from 1999! Back then it was called PaperlesPOBox. EarthClassMail came several years later (2008) and offers additional conven
by notlisted 14y ago
What a brilliant idea, all the way from 1999! Back then it was called PaperlesPOBox. EarthClassMail came several years later (2008) and offers additional conveniences.
The iPad makes everything better! (sarcasm)
On a more serious note: I think the USPS should offer this service. Why trust a private company with it?
On a practical note: good luck trying to prove your residency for public schools if your snail mail is forwarded to an address in another state.
- spullara 14y agoYou don't forward your mail. They pick it up at your mailbox.
- saurik 14y ago(You actually can't forward your mail for very long; you can get a half year, and sort of a year, but the post office really doesn't apparently want to be in the position of being a routing system.)
- beagle3 14y agoWhich is really a shame, actually. I would love to have a virtual address, such as Mr. Beagle3 Esq 742 Virtuality Road, Suite #3971 c/o Monopod Iridium Violet Cyber, NY 19997 And would happily pay a few tens of USD per year for that to be forwarded to an address of my choosing, and also last-mile routing (e.g., if this address "resolves" to AZ, I accept paying for the NY->AZ resent -- even though, if properly managed, this would be resolved at a stage where a resend will not be needed). Oh, and in case you wonder - the address including suite, c/o, city and zip code should together form an error-correcting code, so that e.g. a one digit error could be automatically corrected -- because otherwise, a one digit error would reach AZ instead of NY and vice versa.
- drudru11 14y agoAmen. I think it might have been 1998 even :-) It keeps getting rehashed every 2-3 years. Lets see if this one sticks around.