Do you have snail-mail headaches?

Posted by admin on February 12, 2009

We’ve all gone away on vacation and/or business only to return home with a pile of dirty laundry and a monstrous stack of post office mail awaiting us. Before our keys even hit the counter, we’re feverishly sifting through a stack of junk mail in search of that ever important piece of mail that’s been sandwiched in between credit card offers for weeks. Alas, you stumble upon an invite to attend an all expenses paid International Marketing Conference in Dubai as a Key Note Speaker…….but the RSVP deadline was yesterday. Ok, maybe that’s a stretch. How about a notice that your electricity will be shut off tomorrow while the Electric Company does some grid work outside your house…now that’s actually happened to me.

Wouldn’t it be nice if that invite or shut off notice was delivered to you virtually? Earth Class Mail offers a fantastic service to do just that along with a number of other cool features.

I first came across this service in a newsletter from The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce. I investigated it further to see if it would relieve one of my always-traveling client’s snail-mail headaches.

Using one of their street addresses, Earth Class Mail receives all of your postal mail, including packages, and scans the exterior of the envelopes and packages into a secure online mailbox for you to view. You can then log in and decide how to handle each piece of mail. You can opt to open and scan to pdf, ship a hard copy to an address of your choice, shred sensitive mail and best of all recycle your junk mail. How cool is that? So happy traveling!!