Earth Class Mail Substitutes?

February 8, 2010 10:56 PM

Current reviews of mail scanning and forwarding services? Trying to avoid Earth Class Mail.

I've been a customer of Earth Class Mail for a while, which has gotten a lot of positive recommendations on AskMe. I've been very happy with the service so far. Unfortunately, the forced price change means I'm going to pay a *lot* more, and I'm not sure it's worth it. I don't like the way they're changing, and want to know if there are good substitutes.

There don't seem to be a lot of options besides them. Paperlessmail.com sounds like a great substitute for the original price I was paying at ECM, but the website looks a bit sketchy.

Has anyone been happy with other services that aren't Earth Class Mail? I'm looking for a address in the US.

posted by FuManchu to Shopping (5 answers total)

Same thing happened to me and I too am looking for a good substitute to Earth Class Mail. I tweeted about it a few months ago, and someone steered me to this page:

http://unhappyecmcustomer.blogspot.com/2009/09/earth-class-mail-alternatives-part-2.html

Re: Paperlessmail.com - I thought the website itself was alright, but the video was a bit iffy. How tough is it to produce a professional promo video these days?

I haven't tried anything other than Earth Class Mail yet, but I'm going to have to soon and would love to know what most former Earth Class Mail customers are going with and what their experience has been like.
posted by Digital_Man at 11:51 PM on February 8, 2010

I have used shipito.com with great success, as have many many other people in Australia.

I have to say, having like you shopped around, I was taken aback by their speed and price.
posted by smoke at 1:06 AM on February 9, 2010

There's a long thread on this at FlyerTalk Forums.
posted by sharkfu at 1:19 AM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks for the links, guys. (And man, Digital_Man, that is one pissed off customer) Seems that there's not as much competition in the mail scanning business as I'd thought. Lots of discussion of forwarders, but less about converting-to-email.

So far the places that are most like ECM in terms of online reading are:
MyUSPostbox.com starting at $20/mo
My RV Mail starting at $15/mo
VirtualPostMail.com starting at $10/mo
MailboxForwarding.com starting at $10/mo
St. Brendan's Isle starting at $8/mo

Will still be looking for testimonials about any of these.
posted by FuManchu at 4:57 AM on February 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

I've been thrilled with Maillink Plus, in Vegas. I've only used them for forwarding, not scanning, but they do offer scanning, and I'm sure they do a decent job of it.
posted by toxic at 11:52 AM on February 9, 2010