Dealing with physical mail from the U.S. Postal Service has been a constant challenge, both as a globe-trotting entrepeneur, and before that, as a bi-coastal consultant. The best I could do was have mail sent to one location or another -- an empty apartment, or a friend's home, but in any case, a place that I might not visit for many months at a time. Now that I spend many months in Asia, forwarding my mail by courier would be a very costly option that would still leave my mail fairly stale. And since perhaps ninety percent of my mail is junk, sending it halfway around the world in order to be discarded is both annoying and environmentally unsound.
Earth Class Mail is my solution. Using them, I now receive an email whenever I get postal mail, and that email shows me a scan of the envelope received and asks me if I would like to open and scan it, recyle it, shed it, or forward it. From their website, I can see and manage my U.S. Postal Service mail almost as if it were email. If an envelope contains a check, I can even ask them to deposit it for me. From the other side of the world, I now have faster access to my mail than ever before. Earth Class Mail gives me an address to use on Market Street in downtown San Francisco (they have locations around the US) that can accept both my corporate mail and personal mail. The address is not classified as a Post Office Box (even though it essentially is) so I can receive anything at that address.
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