Too Good for Snail Mail? Want to Pretend You're from San Francisco?

By Ashley Harrell

If anybody needs more evidence that San Francisco is a sweet place to live, here's some: a company called Earth Class Mail, known for converting fancy people's snail mail into e-mail, has just opened a new office at 548 Market Street. They've seemingly done this so that people can trick others into believing that they are from San Francisco.
"San Francisco's status as a global gateway is an ideal fit with our service which lets people access, read and manage their postal mail online from anywhere in the world," said Earth Class Mail CEO Ron Wiener. The company is attempting to market itself to executives, consultants and government officials, Wiener says, with new, prestigious street-address locations including SF's Market Street, Santa Monica Boulevard in LA and Park Avenue in Manhattan.

After the mail lands on Market Street, workers will scan the envelopes, convert them into e-mail, and wait for instructions on what should become of the missives. Commanded by customer's mouse clicks, the company will shred, recycle, open and scan, or even forward the mail to any location, including where the customer actually lives, which is clearly not as sweet as San Francisco.