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Archive forJanuary, 2014

Postal Mail to Email Conversion

I’m planning a 3 week trip to Denmark in March to study some of their architectural works of art and I need to continue checking and responding to my physical mail during this time. After a quick search I see there are plenty of companies that offer to receive and scan your mail for you. Earth Class Mail and Virtual Post Mail have the biggest fan base it seems. Frequent travelers love it and some people are even using the service to dodge sales tax by shipping products through no tax states like Oregon. But I only need it for a short time and after reading this Earth Class Mail review I understood that for small windows of time, it is much more of a hassle than it’s worth due to the inability to forward mail away from the service. The service is only useful if you are fully committed and update all your addresses, but then it’s extremely tedious work to go back. Having one foot in, one foot out, isn’t appealing either.

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