Earth Class Mail Releases Major Product Makeover

Completely rebuilt user interface brings the user-friendly, time-efficient features of popular email platforms to online postal-mail management.

SEATTLE – June 12, 2009 – Earth Class Mail Corporation (ECM), the world's leading provider of Internet-powered postal-mail services, announces the official release of its updated postal-mail web application to customers worldwide. The new user interface, which has been used by thousands of ECM customers in a Beta phase for the past several weeks, allows customers to receive, read and manage their postal mail on the web with features similar to those found in popular email client applications.

The release represents the first major upgrade of the product's user interface since the launch of Earth Class Mail in April, 2006. The application is also being licensed to Swiss Post for the online postal-mail service that it will soon officially launch in Europe under the brand name Swiss Post Box.

Among the key features and benefits of the new application:

• Customized folders allow users to organize and store digital versions of their postal-mail items the same way they archive their email messages.
• Mail items can be filtered by category so users can quickly locate and retrieve them regardless of where they're filed.
• When a user requests that mail be securely opened and scanned, the scanned contents are visible in the same browser window; there's no need to download anything or launch a separate viewer application.
• The new shipping wizard lets users quickly and easily forward-ship mail items to any destination.
• Enlarged views of envelopes appear on hover, allowing users to quickly distinguish important mail items from unwanted mail.

"The feedback we received from customers who used the Beta version was extremely positive," said Earth Class Mail President Sarah Carr. "We're confident that the new application will have a significant positive impact on new sign-ups and customer satisfaction for both our service and Swiss Post Box's."

About Earth Class Mail
Earth Class Mail™ offers and licenses a service that lets customers in more than 170 countries access and manage their postal mail online, 24x7, with benefits ranging from mobility and convenience or a business presence at a fraction of the cost of an executive suite to cost-savings and productivity. Earth Class Mail's system digitizes envelopes at midstream of the delivery process, presenting two-sided color images of incoming envelopes to customers via email and in customers' secure online accounts. Then, for each new mail item, customers can use Earth Class Mail's patent-pending Recipient Choice™ technology to have the item opened and the contents confidentially scanned for secure online viewing, or to have it shredded, archived, delivered to the right desk, transferred to another person without need of interoffice mail systems, or forward-shipped to another location without delay. For enterprises and government agencies, the system digitizes paper mail at its entry point, injecting it directly into an organization's electronic workflow and saving 75% of typical document lifecycle costs. Founded in 2004, Earth Class Mail is headquartered in Seattle and is venture-capital funded by Ignition Partners. It has over 20 points of presence in the U.S., from New York City to San Francisco, where customers may have their mail delivered

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