What’s a Virtual Mailbox?

Are you trying to find a new office for your business? It’s likely that you don’t want to use your home address to protect your privacy.

But what happens if you travel often for your business? What if you want to register your business in one location but live in another? How do you ensure that you still receive your mail on time?

This has long been a challenge for many entrepreneurs. Luckily, a virtual mailbox service resolves these issues.

Here’s what you need to know about a virtual mailbox:

What Is a Virtual Mailbox?

With a virtual mailbox, you’ll have a business address that you can share with anyone. The virtual mailbox address will be a physical address so your clients won’t know the difference unless you tell them!

The mailboxes are owned by a company that owns mailboxes across the United States. You can choose a physical address in any state that you wish even if you don’t live there. These are services that you won’t get with the USPS virtual mailbox which requires you to register in your city.

The virtual mailbox service will collect mail on your behalf. You can visit their office to pick up your mail at your leisure. Or, you can have the mail sent to you.

How to Collect Your Virtual Mail

So what happens if you can’t make it to the office to pick up your mail from your virtual mailbox?

The virtual mailbox company can forward your mail or scan and email it to you. You can provide the virtual mailbox company with your actual physical address. They’ll send your mail to your physical address on request.

Virtual mailbox service companies can also forward your mail abroad to almost any country. Let’s say you live in Miami but your mailbox is based in Las Vegas and you’ll spend a month in Buenos Aires on a business trip.

You can request the virtual mailbox service to forward your mail from Las Vegas to Miami. Before you travel to Buenos Aires, you can inform the company of your travel dates. During this period, they’ll forward your mail to your address in Buenos Aires.

Once you return to Miami, you’ll receive your mail back to this address!

You can also request your mail to get scanned and sent to you. With this process, the virtual mailbox service scans your letters and converts the scan to a PDF file.

You can request them to send your scanned PDFs to your emails or to a cloud storage solution. You can then request the company to shred your mail once you’ve received the scan.

Get Your Virtual Mailbox

Now you can apply for your virtual mailbox and receive your mail on the go while having a professional address.

The virtual mailbox service company can also forward your mail to any address in the country or abroad. They can also provide scanned copies of your mail upon request.

It gives you the opportunity to get a physical address for your business if you aren’t keen on using your home address. You can choose any city or state in the United States for your virtual mailbox.

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