Traveling Mailbox vs. iPostal1

Since 2011, Traveling Mailbox has been providing Postal Mail Scanning & Mail Forwarding services to tens of thousands of customers all over the world. iPostal1 is another virtual mailbox company with a focus on business services. Here is how we compare.

The core concept of most virtual mailbox companies is the same. To allow customers to be able to view their postal mail online or have it forwarded. In this brief article, we will discuss a few of our unique advantages over iPostal1 and explain why so many have chosen Traveling Mailbox over the years to handle their postal mail and packages while they travel.

Our advantages over iPostal1

  • Upfront Pricing

    Since 2011, Traveling Mailbox has kept our pricing the same and increased our features and offerings. iPostal1 advertises that plans start as low as $9.99 per month but this is certainly deceitful. iPostal1 does not include any scanning of your mail in your price while Traveling Mailbox does. iPostal1 charges to shred your mail while Traveling Mailbox does not.

  • Traveling Mailbox Processing & Customer Support 7 Days per week.

    Traveling Mailbox is the only company in the entire virtual mailbox industry that processes mail and provides customer service 7 days a week. Our customer support staff is available from 6am to 10 pm EST via phone, live chat, or email. Wherever and whenever you are in the world, you can reach us.

  • Traveling Mailbox Developers

    Our in-house development team constantly improves and maintains our custom-built interface and infrastructure. Our team is always standing by and working to ensure our customers have a positive experience on our Platform.

  • Traveling Mailbox Membership Plan

    Most travelers don't travel full time. Traveling Mailbox allows you to suspend your account when you're not traveling and easily reactivate it when you hit the road again. We are not aware of iPostal1 offering this feature.

  • USPS Form 1583

    Like all other virtual mailbox companies, iPostal1 requires the USPS Form 1583 to be notarized. Traveling Mailbox is the only company where we verify your two forms of ID and electronically sign your form with you over a video call. This prevents you having to make arrangements to get the form notarized saving you a ton of time-especially if you live overseas.

  • Up Front Shipping Costs & Calculator

    Traveling Mailbox offers an intuitive shipping calculator so you know what to expect when it comes time to ship your mail or packages. Most providers like iPostal1 do not readily publish this information because their shipping costs can be quite high.

  • Direct Integrations

    Traveling Mailbox integrates directly with OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, and Evernote. No third party apps needed or any custom coding on your end.

In conclusion, the setup of iPostal1 is completely different than the way we do it here at Traveling Mailbox. iPostal1 uses all third party vendors to perform every aspect of the services provided. Traveling Mailbox performs all services and functions of processing your mail so that we can provide a consistent structure to our services.

iPostal1 does not provide the value and the feature set that we at Traveling Mailbox provide. Our goal from day one has been set to provide the most affordable yet flexible online mailbox provider by allowing you to get your postal mail scanned, viewed, and forwarded from anywhere in the world. We have built a Company and a Platform based on data and customer feedback that has allowed people from all over the world to solve a potentially complex issue. Traveling Mailbox is here for you every step of the way to ensure that your postal mail is easily accessible and that you can receive your packages anywhere in the world!

Check out your Traveling Mailbox!

Basic Plan

$ 15 /month

Ideal starter plan for most with plenty of page scans.

40 Incoming Envelopes / Month
35 Page Scans / Month
3 Mailbox Recipients
FREE Mail Shredding
Junk mail doesn't count!
Unlimited Cloud Storage
Change Plans Anytime
Your Scans Rollover
Get Started!

Extended Plan

$ 25 /month

Get even more envelopes and more page scans with rollover scans.

100 Incoming Envelopes / Month
80 Page Scans / Month
5 Mailbox Recipients
FREE Mail Shredding
Junk mail doesn't count!
Unlimited Cloud Storage
Change Plans Anytime
Your Scans Rollover
Get Started!

Small Business Plan

$ 55 /month

Ideal for small businesses and larger households.

200 Incoming Envelopes / Month
180 Page Scans / Month
10 Mailbox Recipients
FREE Mail Shredding
Junk mail doesn't count!
Unlimited Cloud Storage
Change Plans Anytime
Your Scans Rollover
Get Started!

Junk Mail

Junk Mail? Solved! If junk mail is placed in your mailbox, you can simply mark it as junk and it won't count towards your plan limits!

Additional Recipients

Add mailbox recipients such as spouses, kids, personal businesses, employees, or evens friends to your Traveling Mailbox.

Change Plans Anytime

As your needs change, so can your Traveling Mailbox. Upgrade or Downgrade your account from your billing portal at any time.

Your Scans Rollover

Unused Envelope Scans and Page Scans can rollover to the next month making your Traveling Mailbox even more flexible.

Our Team

Travis Poole

President

Mike Puckett

SVP

Jennifer

Office Lead

Jacob

Team Lead

Tori

Team Lead

Sarah

Team Lead

Maddie

Team Lead

Seth

Team Lead

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Traveling Mailbox has many team members working in the background from scanning in your mail, processing it for forwarding somewhere in the world, building and coding new systems and many more functions!

Engineers

Traveling Mailbox

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I have had this service for over 6 years and was thrilled with it. Items were uploaded quickly, scan turnaround was prompt and we had no complaints. We thought this a great idea as we sold our home and were not sure where we should settle so decided to rent for a few years. Over the last 2 years however things started to slowly change. Mail has taken weeks to get uploaded. As a business owner this had a negative effect and caused us to miss deadlines. Appears that items are arriving and taking quite some time to be sorted and scanned to accounts. This was shocking and since we had never had this issue previously we decided to reach out. We took screen shots of the postmark as well as the scan date and sent a message to customer service. We hoped this was just a hiccup with maybe new staff or something. Well, it went sideways from there. We were told it was not their fault as First Class mail always takes 10-14 days to cross the same city and longer if from another state. I simply stated it had never taken that long previously. He then suggested I could try changing my address to another of their less busy facilities if I wanted better turn time. Note that the other city was on the east coast when we are in Oregon. This confirmed to me that it was a problem in Portland. If it would be faster for mail to go across the country vs same state. Looking at the last year it appears that our mail gets uploaded twice a month. I have attached a mail. parcel with a postmark of 8/21/24 and my scan date of 9/4/24. This is now common and with the response we received it was disappointing. Moving away from here is not an easy task. If you cancel outright the fees are astronomical, I get it and that is fine. I honestly do not want to move away. I want the previous service we had for so many years before. Alas, sometimes things have to change.
Karen Eslick
Karen Eslick
a week ago
I live in a foreign country and have been using traveling mailbox for three or four years. I get great service and a variety of options for handling my mail.
JOHN SIMON
JOHN SIMON
a week ago
Traveling Mailbox is a great service that is wonderful for people who live abroad but need mail in the USA. Plus they are easy and intuitive to work with. Because of that you rarely need to contact customer service but if you do they are present and helpful. Im sticking with Traveling Mailbox
Yolanda Mikaele
Yolanda Mikaele
a week ago
I have used Traveling Mailbox services for almost 1 year(11.5 months), and I am very pleased with the service. Mail is scanned promptly, and the customer service is great. They respond quickly, and the staff are very informed and helpful. I have only used the chat customer service, which is my prefered method, and they are great every time.
nancy cunningham
nancy cunningham
a week ago