has anyone tried one of these virtual po box companies. For example id do a mail forwarding to the po box they give me. and id pay $XX.XX a month to be able to look at my physical mail online. They would open/scan the ones i request scanned, shred the ones i request shredded, and forward the ones i wish forwarded to anywhere in the world.

Example website

There are a lot of these out there. I just wondered if anyone has tried one of these from belize? and they are/nt happy with it.

Thanks!

AC

This one looks like it might have better pricing options

let me know what you guys think?

AC

So you're gonna pay to not receive yer mail normally??????

the benefit would be for expats or travelers. So they could still have people send mail to a US address. But see the mail easily online. thats what you pay for is them housing our mail/scanning your mail.

AC

Normal mail works fine here....

I personally wouldn't trust anyone to open up and go through my mail. (Not that I ever receive anything important). I think you might be better off going through a UPS store or similar. You can tell them what kind of mail you want forwarded, what to trash, and how often you want the mail forwarded.

I don't want strangers opening my mail . . .geez, what an opportunity for amongst other abuses, identity theft.

i would definitely NOT want strangers going through my mail. But actually, I mostly get junk mail anymore, so maybe I wouldn't care. all my bills come online, and I communicate via email and Facebook, so I guess I dont really need regular mail

AC - that's a cool idea. I've never heard of it but may look into it (I'm in Europe but with a US mailbox forwarding system).

In terms of identity theft - you shouldn' probably have sensitive stuff sent via snail mail anymore anyways. For me, nothing major comes through this way anymore.

I think most of you are putting too much emphasis on fraud/privacy. If someone wants your data I would worry more about online fraud, trash pickers, random unhappy employee at a random restaurant. etc. These people (companies) that I linked make thier business by serving people's private data to them. They wouldn't stay in business long if they were screwing people over left and right. That being said I will be doing serious research before I choose which one to use .

Must find positive reviews of services like this before deciding.

AC