Your Postal Mail Online - You'll manage your postal mail as easily as your email!

How it works:
First you pick a "Remote Address". When you recieve mail a scanned image of the front of the still sealed envelop is instantly sent to you online. You decide what you want thrown out and what you want "opened". You can also opt to have sensitive mail shredded, junk mail recycled and archives stored at Earth Class Mail's facility.

They advertise themselves as great for travelers who can't have a single address for mail to be delivered.

I don't personally think this is useless. You can already pay most bills online and handle other business over the phone. Also they advertise themselves as "green" but there isn't anyless waste - its just being delivered somewhere else for someone else to deal with!

Also how much do you pay some one to scan and sort your mail? It doesn't stop the US postal Service from losing mail either!

Maybe I could see the viability i this kind of service if I was a travler that is away from home for months at a time. But then again - whereever I am - I don't want to deal with mail.


http://www.earthclassmail.com/

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What bothers me about this concept is that they will be handling my mail. How am I supposed to know the employee shredded/recycled the document? How am I supposed to know they didn't take home my pre-approved credit card offer with the intent of stealing my identity?

Okay, so they probably have security measures in place for that sort of thing, but I still worry about things like that. Plus, I just don't care for the idea of someone else handling my mail. It's MY mail, dammit. And I'll do with it whatever I damn well please!
» ranor on 2008-05-10 10:54:25

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