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My company needs to have a US address for getting insurance and other services from US providers, despite us being based abroad (in Canada).

Can anyone suggest a good provider of an inbound mailing address (e.g. virtual office services, or mail scanners/forwarders)? We need it to be both reasonable in cost and very reliable - good enough for business/legal correspondence, not just for telephone bills.

Hopefully I'm not the first one to have faced this, and perhaps others can benefit from the answers too!

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Michael, which provider did you finally end up with? – rochb Feb 13 '11 at 17:47

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I researched this topic about a year ago. If you can visit US, I believe you can set up a mailing address with UPS (complete with a street address, not just a PO box). Then there are "virtual office" providers such as Regus who provide a more "full-service" solution. Then there is EarthClassMail, they have a couple of addresses you can use, too.

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Yes, you can get a PO box set up if you visit a post office in the US, but that only helps if you can regularly come there and pick up your mail. – Michael Feb 22 '10 at 13:52
Not sure who UPC is, google doesn't give any useful hits. – Michael Feb 22 '10 at 17:18
Oops I meant UPS, UPC is actually a cable TV company here in Europe – Tomas Kohl Feb 23 '10 at 9:21
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if you need more of a full-service solution (address, telephone, billing, answering etc), go with Regus. Notice that they also have different locations - so you can choose a cheap one (their expensive ones can be EXPENSIVE). They wont be able to compete with the $9/month guys that do mailing only, but if you need a full presence to make it look as if you really are there, that does the trick.

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Good tip, thanks. I'm looking for something a bit more basic than Regus though. – Michael Feb 22 '10 at 17:52

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