Snag a pretentious street address for your snail mail

05 09 2008

Snag a pretentious street address for your snail mail

Posted by: in Productivity

As a refresher, snail mail is the paper mail that arrives to your actual street address or PO box. If you think of it as a chore to open and then recycle or shred all the paper on a daily basis, Earth Class Mail which David Pogue reported recently, might be an option to try.

For a fee, you can have your mail sent to a special PO box or pretentious street address and they’ll scan it for you. Now you don’t have to get your hands dirty or suffer paper cuts or fill the real recycling bin. An added bonus is the capability to be a poser while you read your mail on the internet in the obscurity of your real address, wherever that is - even if it’s a van down by the river.

Naturally, pricing for this service isn’t for those without a big, fat wallet. A pretentious street address costs more than the PO box, up to $24.95 per month more, if you pick the Park Avenue address. The street address fee is on top of the value plan pricing which is $9.95 per month for 35 pieces of mail and includes 50 scans. Plans go up from there.

When you receive mail, Earth Class Mail will send you an email saying “You’ve got mail.” Thankfully, this is something you read and don’t hear. The email has a scan of the outer envelope. You’ve several options at this point. You can send to trash, recycle, or shred. If you want to see the contents, you can request a scan of the innards which takes an additional day to process. The scan is emailed to you as a PDF. You can also have your mail forwarded to you as in physically, for additional money of course.

In the end, you still have to deal with your mail either online or in 3D. Earth Class Mail just doesn’t do everything. But it does give you an address you can be proud of.

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