Dataset current to Oct 2026

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US Business Addresses & Virtual Mailboxes

Six ways to give a US company a street address and have its mail opened and scanned, compared on what a year costs and on what each provider says the address may be used for.

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The comparison

6 providers. Sort any column; the sorted or filtered view has its own address and can be linked to.

Letter scanning

6 providers

Every figure here was checked against the provider’s own page in Sep 2026. Figures are rechecked at least every 90 days; one past that is marked “Recheck due”.

Segments show the tier reached, not the score:BasicStandardStrongExcellent

The first column is twelve months at each plan's monthly price. Average and 'starting at' prices are marked in the price-basis column; the plan you get may cost more. Read the scanning column before the price: a plan that only photographs envelopes is not doing the same job as one that opens and scans your letters. The last column is the provider's own statement of what the address is for, and one provider advises against using its address as your official business address.

Scoring weights

rubric 2026.1

  • A year, billed monthly100%

Set once per vertical and versioned. Changing a weight is a logged version bump, not routine upkeep — methodology.

Verification state

Dated fields in this table
36
Oldest check
Sep 2026
Most recent check
Sep 2026
Recheck window
90 days
Past that window
0

Guides

One question each, answered in the first sixty words from the figures in this table.

Scope

What the figures cover, and what is deliberately absent — an omission a reader cannot see looks like an oversight.

What this table covers

  • Every price is read off the provider's own pricing or product page and dated individually.
  • For each provider, the cheapest published plan that gives a business a US street address and handles its mail. Where the price depends on the location you pick, the price-basis column says so.
  • The headline column is a year at the plan's monthly price. Some providers discount a year paid up front; where a provider publishes that price, the price-basis column or the product summary gives it.
  • What a plan includes is recorded in the provider's own terms. Some count letters received, some count pages scanned, some count items digitised, and forcing those into one number would make them look comparable when they are not.

What it leaves out, and why

  • Registered agent service. A mailbox address receives mail; it does not accept legal papers on the company's behalf. That is a registered agent's job, and those are compared in the formation table.
  • Package handling, forwarding postage and cheque deposit. Each provider prices these per item, and what they cost depends on your mail.
  • Whether a bank or payment provider will accept a given address. Each sets its own rules, so the last column records only what the mailbox provider itself says.
  • Quality of service. It is not published, so it is not scored; the score is the year's price alone.

Every figure above is dated to the last time it was checked against the provider’s own pricing page, not to when this page was published. See methodology for how scores are calculated from those figures.