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Old Jan 4, 2021 | 1:24 pm
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Combining InformedDelivery & Mail Forwarding?

I'm looking for a solution to a problem for folks who like to travel for more than about 2 weeks. It would combine USPS Informed Delivery with snailmail scan-and-email services.

For those who are not familiar with USPS Informed Delivery, it is a free service where the USPS emails every morning an image of (almost) all normal-size envelopes and cards that you will receive later that day. This is a great service for when you are traveling...you can see the envelopes of bills that come in and pay the bills online.

There are also services that will open and scan all your mail while you are traveling, emailing you the scans. Before you leave town, you tell the post office to forward all your mail to the company. A downside of this is that a person at the forwarding company can peruse all your mail.

I'm envisioning a service that would receive your forwarded mail while you are traveling, and open-and-scan only those particular envelopes that you request. You would know which envelopes to request because you saw them in Informed Delivery emails from the USPS.

Is there such a service?
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