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Receive all your regular mail in your email inbox

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:58:32 +0000

For anyone who moves around as much as I do a new service now available called Mail2Email could bring some relief to the problem of constantly updating address details, paying for redirection and often missing important pieces of mail.

The service is pretty basic in what it does, you sign up and choose a subscription rate based on how many items you think you'll receive. They then provide you with a fixed address to have all your mail sent to. When they receive a letter for you, they scan it, send the scanned copy to you then either forward your original copy or securely destroy it. If you receive cheques via mail this is no problem either, they provide an option of banking these cheques for you and providing copies of the deposit slips.

The advantages of this service seem to go beyond those who might change addresses often. This could be a way to better organise your filing as it saves you the trouble of filing paper or scanning yourself. Its also useful for anyone who travels on holiday or business and needs to be able to receive and respond to their mail without having the hassle of setting up another person to collect the mail from their usual address and try to relay it to them.

If you are concerned about security or privacy you could use this service to receive mail that you don't want anyone else to know about or use it as a way to safely receive your mail without fear of it being stolen from your mailbox and used to steal your identity.

This is definitely a service I will be considering as I find myself having to update addresses too frequently and it would help me move towards my goal of becoming paperless.

Visit their website for more details: http://www.mail2email.com.au.

Free Audiobooks

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:04:39 +0000

The website Simply Audiobooks, who also sell and rent audio books, have a small selection of free audiobooks to download.

These include "The Stolen White Elephant" by Mark Twain, Quotations of Mahatma Ghandi" Narrated by Michael Scott, The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, and others.

You can download these files for free and listen to them on your mp3 player, on your computer, or burn them to CD.

http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/

Freecycle (Get stuff for free!)

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:32:18 +0000

The Freecycle Network was started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson's downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items. One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!

How does it work?
When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group.

Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.

Our main rule: Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages.

Check out Freecycle here: http://www.freecycle.org/

Or find a group near you and start 'Freecycling': http://www.freecycle.org/groups/