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Websiteearthclassmail.com
Blogearthclassmail.co...
CategoryEnterprise
Phone206-905-2400
Email
Employees
DescriptionRead postal mail online

Offices

Seattle, USA
411 1st Avenue S., Suite 350a
Seattle, WA, 98104
USA

People

Founder and Board Chairman
Senior Vice-President of Strategic Development
Senior Vice President of Products
Chief Financial Officer
President

Funding

Total$21.4M
Angel, 2006
$3M
Series A, 9/07
Alliance of Angels
Ignition Partners
Keiretsu Forum
$7.4M
Series A, 1/08
Ignition Partners
Keiretsu Forum
$5.9M
Unattributed, 10/08
$5.1M

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Earth Class Mail

Formerly known as Document Command and Remote Control Mail, Earth Class Mail allows enterprises, small businesses and individuals to access, read, and fully manage their postal mail online, and its technologies scale to the level of national posts so that these postal services can provide Internet-powered mail to their recipients worldwide.

Earth Class Mail currently gives its customers a choice of 23 U.S. street and P.O. Box addresses where they can have their postal mail redirected, including on Park Avenue in Manhattan, in San Francisco’s Financial District, and near Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Earth Class Mail scans the exterior of all envelopes and parcels it receives and sends the images to customers in email messages as well as posting the images to customers’ online accounts. For each mail item, the customer directs Earth Class Mail to either open it and scan the contents for his online viewing as a PDF; recycle or shred it; forward-ship it to him; or securely store it.

In the fall of 2008, Earth Class Mail announced a partnership with Swiss Post in which the venerated national postal operator will license Earth Class Mail’s technologies to provide online postal mail to its customers in Europe and eventually throughout the world. The new service, called Swiss Post Box, launched in June, 2009.

Earth Class Mail was the subject of a 2008 documentary TV show called “Start-Up Junkies” on MOJO HD.

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Vator.tv Interview

Added: 1/31/09

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Websiteearthclassmail.com
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Earth Class Mail screenshot
Above: Earth Class Mail Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08
Earth Class Mail screenshot
Above: Earth Class Mail UI
Uploaded: 7/1/09

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Comments

Jordan Graf - June 30, 2009 at 12:21pm
For a long time the interface was terrible but they recently revamped it and now it's usable and actually quite good. I still wish Google would just buy these guys and integrate this right into GMail. At the very least, cheap OCR and a Google Desktop plugin would be good.
Remote desktop software - May 20, 2009 at 7:23am
I've been looking at their website and it seems like a good service. I have a PO Box right now, but, as sad as it sounds, I'm super lazy and usually go well over a month in between stops at the post office. And then I have an ass load of mail that I have to sit there and sort.
Saurabh Kumar - May 9, 2009 at 3:13pm
I don't really understand why "most" people would use this service. I can understand the argument for a frequent traveler that has to read his mail but the pricing is ridiculous. The cheapest plan barely lets you receive 2 pieces of mail a day. And I wouldn't feel comfortable having someone else receive my mail and open it for me. Also, another start up online mail company, www.zumbox.com seems more compelling with their offering. There is no paper involved and its completely web based. There are disadvantages to their service as well but if a National Post were to use a service, I think zumbox is better.
Liz M. - February 3, 2009 at 12:27pm
I agree with Rolf that Earth Class Mail could be really helpful for the USPS and that it is an interesting concept. Definitely worth a try, especially if you are a frequent traveler. I came across the website www.zooppa.com and saw that they are holding a competition to promote their company. They are working with a new user-generated social advertising firm Zooppa where anyone can create a video ad. The winner gets prize money and recognition for their work. Anyway, thought it was a cool idea so thought I'd let people know about it!
Rolf V. - February 2, 2009 at 11:29am
It's a cool concept. More than that, it might be the one thing that saves the USPS from certain demise. People that don't get "online postal mail" will likely never get it. Detractors of the internet once existed, too.
John Adams - September 29, 2008 at 1:25am
Just watched the video series on startup junkies and it seems the fairy tale in the video is incongruent with the real world story I've gotten from a litle bit of online research. For what it's worth I thought their idea was terrible from the beginning but the startup junkies story was pretty interesting even if some parts of it were mostly sales fluff. By now the owners and investors are probably hoping some post office will buy them out and shut them down. They will claim yet another success story and go on to slay their next startup dragon. At one point in the video Ron (CEO) said "they're drinking the kool-ade" ... and I thought how interesting and, probably, a Freudian slip too.
Evan Fell - September 1, 2008 at 6:05pm
Earth Class Mail is a terrible service that over promises and under delivers. Their promotions and list of features are completely dishonest when compared to their actual operations. I was completely dissatisfied with their service and Canceled Canceled Canceled.

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  1. Startup Junkies (hulu.com) [edit]
  2. pehub.com [edit]
  3. Earth Class raises $13.3 million (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
  4. Earth Class Mail News - Taking Postal News Online, Signs Swiss Post [edit]
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