
We check our email online and some of us even check our voicemail online. What if you could check your postal mail online, from any computer in the world? A new service called Earth Class Mail provides the ability to do just that. While at first glance, this might seem like an unnecessary convenience, there are actually many good reasons to use a service like Earth Class mail. Frequent travelers, those in the middle of ...
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Organizing family life can feel more like organizing a small business than a home. With work, school, extra-curricular, travel, and weekend schedules, planning can be challenging. Then there are plans about who will pick up the milk, how everyone will get to work and school if a car breaks down, where to keep the list of people to invite to the baby shower. With so much information that needs to be shared, it can be ...
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Whether you get 30 messages a day or 330, email can be overwhelming. Today, many of us spend all day in the inbox, replying to requests the moment we hear the ping of email notification. The pressure to deal with bloated email inboxes with increasing speed has hit workers hard in recent years. (more…)
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One of your best friends from college lives in Seoul. A business contact lives in the United Kingdom, and a nonprofit you support does the bulk of its work in China. As our world becomes smaller and as more businesses, students, and families travel and connect with others across the globe, it is becoming increasingly more important to stay connected. (more…)
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The problem with receipts is…well, the receipts. Little slips of paper are so easy to lose, mismanage, or accidentally toss into the trash can with a gum wrapper. Still, organizing them is a part of life for many of us. When tax time rolls around, we’re scrambling to find those little slips of paper for itemized tax returns. They’re stuffed in a dresser drawer, in purses, briefcases, manila folders packed so full that papers are ...
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At a time when communication comes in so many forms, handwritten notes and greeting cards may seem to be too much trouble. When we’re thinking of a friend, we can email, call, send a text message, use an ecard, or deliver a digital plant on Facebook. Maybe because of this, getting a greeting card that’s mailed the old fashioned way can be memorable. (more…)
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