Monday 10 September 2012

Send Postal Letters Anywhere in the World Through Internet


Learn how to send real letters (snail mail) using email – the services will print, fold, envelope, add postage stamps and send out the letter to the destination address via postal mail. You can also upload photographs, Word or PDF documents and send them using the computer.

There are three reasons why you may want to send emails as paper letters using snail mail:
  1. Your relatives live in remote villages where they don’t have computers let alone access to Internet.
  2. our grandparents know computers but they’ll probably feel more happy if you could send them emails and photographs in printed form.
  3. You are trying to reach a busy person who gets a few hundred email messages per day. Your email may get lost in the clutter but if you take the snail mail approach, chances are high that he or she will at least read your message if not respond to it.

How to Send Email as Snail Mail?

Print your email message, insert it into an envelope, rush to the nearest post office, buy some postage stamps and drop the letter in a post box.
Well that’s one of the option but it involves too much work so we’ll shift attention to some automated email to snail mail services that enable us to send paper mail right from the computer at our home.
These web based letter printing and dispatching services work more or less the same way. You send then an email or upload the document as Word or PDF on to their servers, make the payment online and they’ll send the letter via regular postal mail to the specified physical address.

Email to Postal Mail Services – A Comparison

PricingColored PrintingPayment OptionsWhat’s Unique?
Postal Methods$1 for US addresses and $1.5 for international addressesNoCredit CardsMore useful for bulk mails as price decreases with volume
Mail a Letter$1 for US addresses and $2 for international addressesYesCredit Cards, PayPal, Google CheckoutYou can add a self addressed envelope with the letter
Postful$1 for US addresses and $1.5 for international addressesYesCredit Cards, PayPal, Google CheckoutYou can send colored photos as postcards
EZGram$1 for US addresses and $1.6 for non-US addressesYesCredit Cards and PayPalSupports USPS Priority Mail for quick delivery
L-MailAround $1 – depends on countryNoCredit Cards and Debit CardsSupports Braille and audio letters
Click 2 MailRecommended for bulk mailYesCredit CardsSupports Product Flyers, Booklets and Postcards
Email 2 Postal$1 for US addressesNoCredit CardsSupports handwritten envelopes and greeting cards
PC 2 Paper$0.8 for UK and $1.5 for non-UK addressesYesCredit Cards, Paypal and NochexOffers a real UK based postal address for incoming post

All the web based post mail services discussed above let you send letters from anywhere in the world to any other destination. There are some country specific services like Via Post (for UK), Pixel Letter (for European Union), Snail Mail Me (for Canada) and India Post (for residents of India) that may turn out to be cheaper if are sending letters to any of these countries.
Also, of the services listed above, only L-Mail has offices (or rather printing stations) in quite a few international locations (including Mumbai in India) and thus it can deliver mails more quickly (and cheaply) depending upon the destination address. And if you insist on sending colored letters or documents, Postful may be a good choice as they don’t charge extra for colored prints.

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