Remote Control Mail 
is a new service than blurs the line between email and snail mail by receiving all your postal items, scanning the front of them and placing the results into a web interface for you.
For a once-off activation fee of USD 25 and a sliding scale of monthly fees , the company’s service lets you see images of the postal mail you have received and then,
with a few mouse clicks you can have your mail forwarded, opened and scanned into a searchable PDF document you can read online (or print or save), recycled or shredded, or stored securely.
Interesting idea. Particularly useful, one imagines, for travelling salespeople, rockstars and others who are always on the move or have no fixed abode.
This service is only available to people with a postal address in the USA.
[Via TechCrunch ]
Just in usa -_-
Hi,
I just wanted to correct a possible misunderstanding. Remote Control Mail is available to anyone, anywhere in the world (with an internet connection). In fact, approx one-third of our current clients are outside the US.
Ah, that might be my mistake.
So you don’t need an address in the USA to use the service? How would Remote Control Mail (for example) process my Australian mail?
Hi Tim,
you would have a US drop ship address ( our main ‘post office’ in Beaverton, OR ), as we dont have local sorting offices everywhere yet. From there, we can service people anywhere in the world.
This works well for ex-pats, US professionals on assignments, snowbirds, and others requiring a US delivery address and access globally. All of which may not suit your local Australian mail service needs granted.
We are starting to expand our global physical presence in Europe, the Asia Pacific region, and Australia, but it might take a while for full presence with locally based sorting and scanning facilities.
I’m the VP Engineering on the team, and we are scaling this to meet global needs, but every great idea has to start somewhere.
If you’d like to try it out, give us a visit. It doesnt have to be “all or nothing”, you can do some mail with us, and keep some physical delivery to you.
I hope this answers your questions, but if not, drop me a line.
Thanks
Paul Irvine
VP Engineering
Document Command
Paul, thanks for taking the trouble to explain those feature of the service.
It’s not for me, personally, but it sounds like an innovative solution.