I&#x27;ve had pretty much all my mail <i>contents</i> scanned for me since 1999.  It&#x27;s a great service - I can go anywhere in the world, and never worry about a bill, or a charge, or change in terms of services that get mailed to me.  Plus, they&#x27;ll forward any &quot;hard items&quot; (like credit cards) to a physical mailbox (which, in my case, is a pobox that will forward anything that arrives to whatever address I happen to be in the world.)<p>So - all my mail goes to Sioux Falls South Dakota, which then gets scanned (and presumably shredded), and then hard items are re-mailed to Mountain View, which then, on a monthly basis or so, get re-mailed again to Singapore (where I currently am).<p>It only took the USPS 16 years to offer the scan&#x2F;email service for the <i>envelope</i> - it will be interesting to see when they&#x27;ll scan&#x2F;email the <i>contents</i>.