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For what it's worth, for anyone interested, I used this service for years, and they're great. Really nice if you're nomadic and want to have a steady mailing a
by sivers 13y ago
For what it's worth, for anyone interested, I used this service for years, and they're great.
Really nice if you're nomadic and want to have a steady mailing address.
In the U.S., https://www.earthclassmail.com/ https://www.earthclassmail.com/ provides the same service. I think it is (or was) Earth Class Mail's backend software that is/was powering Swiss Post Box, when I was using it.
Also great for having a U.S. mailing address for your business, if needed.
You can use either of these as the billing address for all your credit cards, bank statements, tax returns, etc.
- alanbyrne 13y agoI use a similar service for here in the UK. http://www.ukpostbox.com/ http://www.ukpostbox.com/ So far no problems.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoAny problems with earthclassmail? I've heard from people who love them and people who have had problems with them.
- hannibalhorn 13y agoI used them for 2-3 years, and wouldn't say I ever had any problems, but left after they upped prices with little advance notice. Especially when you're only stateside once a year or so, it becomes tricky to change providers. There are several similar services these days and some of the smaller players can be a better fit, depending on your mail volume and exact needs as far as scanning and forward shipping. I've been pretty happy with virtualpostmail the past few years now.
- rb2k_ 13y agoAre there any that are more targeted towards low volume "regular" consumers? (aka: cheaper)
- martianpenguin 13y agoI use postscanmail, which has $10/mth plans. It works well and any issues I've had have been resolved. I had an issue with postcards not scanning properly due to the envelope=letter, but they eventually got them scanned. The other issue is that it can take an extra couple days for things to happen, so I wouldn't use it with time sensitive things. I'd like to hear if anyone using the other services have better experiences with how long it takes to open/scan mail when it's received.
- Anderkent 13y ago@martianpenguin, your comments are dead. Only a small subset of users can see them. You can reach out to pg@ to request an unban (http://www.andrewkkirk.com/2012/12/how-unbanned-from-hacker-news/ http://www.andrewkkirk.com/2012/12/how-unbanned-from-hacker-...). Hopefully enough traffic will make hn reconsider this policy.
- hannibalhorn 13y agoI would say virtualpostmail - the starter plan is $5/month. I'm pretty low volume - I really only receive replacement credit cards when the old ones expire, plus the all important IRS correspondance (why I can't communicate with them 100% electronically baffles me!)
- ipmb 13y agoI've used them for a few years. No problems at all.
- CountingCode 13y agoNo problems with earthclassmail here either. It is expensive though.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoThey were actually featured on the Start Up Junkies series which gives you a great idea of what it was like getting their service up and running: http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies
- digikata 13y agoWhat do services like this do with mailed documents for which you might want to retain as originals - contracts w/ physical signatures, grandama's handwritten letter, etc?
- phlo 13y agoI'm not sure about earth class mail, but Swiss Post Box will deliver them. Using the default settings, if I'm not mistaken, only envelopes will be scanned. You then get to decide to either open and scan or physically deliver letters. Scanned documents can be delivered, too, but paperclips or staples may be removed.
- CountingCode 13y agoEarth Class Mail will deliver them. And not just documents, I've had packages delivered to ECM and had them hang on to them until I had an address to deliver it to. There's a storage fee, but it's nothing compared to the monthly fee.