What’s waiting for you in your mailbox? When you’re anticipating a payment, important paperwork, or a package, you don’t have to physically check your mail anymore to know what’s there. 

The U.S. Postal Service offers a preview of what’s on the way to your address through a feature called Informed Delivery. If you need something more robust, a virtual mailbox could meet your needs.

Informed Delivery and a virtual mailbox

What’s the difference between Informed Delivery and a virtual mailbox?

In the last several years, trends have inched toward longer mail delivery times. We try to optimize our operations at Earth Class Mail to avoid delays, but we depend on the work of the U.S. Postal Service.

In the last several years, trends have inched toward longer mail delivery times. We try to optimize our operations at Earth Class Mail to avoid delays, but we depend on the work of the U.S. Postal Service. When they have delays, they affect us. Mail delivery times are getting longer An analysis of mail delivery times, used in part when the postal service proposed its new 10-year-plan, shows that mail that once took 2 days to arrive takes an average of a day longer from the mailing date. The USPS proposed the plan, in part, to change expectations. The agency missed its 2-day delivery goal so often, the goals needed adjusting.

Do you have late mail or missing mail? Here are the biggest reasons for mail delays

The USPS unveiled a 10-year plan. Preparing now for the changes the plan will introduce could save you from future headaches.

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a 10-year plan that aimed to save the postal service from bankruptcy and threatened extinction. It will increase postage costs, reduce hours at facilities, and slow down delivery times that already lag.  For the average residential or business customer, preparing now for the changes the plan will introduce could save you from future headaches.

What the USPS 10-year plan means for you 

Situated in the heart of the Tualatin Valley, Beaverton is located in Washington County in the state of Oregon. It is just seven miles west of Portland where many of its nearly 100,000 residents work. The community is located between the Oregon coastline and Mount Hood, making it a scenic Pacific Northwest city.

The Beaverton region is home to Nike, Inc.’s world headquarters as well as Earth Class Mail’s headquarters. All mail sent here is processed faster at the plant expediting mail delivery times.

Other companies located here include Reser’s Fine Foods, a prepared food company, and Leupold & Stevens, a rifle scope company. Considered part of the Silicon Forest movement, Beaverton has a large tech sector. 

This sector includes the Linux Technology Center of IBM, Tektronix, and Oregon Technology Business Center (OTBC), which is a non-profit tech startup incubator. 

The city is ahead of the game with public transit considering it is part of the transit bus, commuter rail, and light rail services operated by Portland’s regional transit agency known as TriMet. It developed the city’s MAX Light Rail. 

For a startup looking to have a virtual address, a PO Box located here would be a great place to be part of the Silicon Forest without the hassle of having to pay for co-working space or an office. It also has the added bonus of being home to Earth Class Mail. 


Oregon Virtual Address

Beaverton

9450 SW Gemini Dr

How Virtual Mail Works

We receive your mail

We digitize it for you

You take control

Postal mail as convenient as email

Prestigious address

Mail digitization

Full-text search

Software integrations

Fully mobile

World-class security

From Earth Class Mail

What’s the difference between Informed Delivery and a virtual mailbox?

By Joanna Heep

Do you have late mail or missing mail? Here are the biggest reasons for mail delays

By Sara Yonker

What the USPS 10-year plan means for you

By Sara Yonker