RE: Paperless United States Mail [Response to Inquiry by Charles Whisonant]

IN RESPONSE TO INQUIRY BY CHARLES WHISONANT:

My U.S. Mail scanning service is:  www.paperlesspobox.com 

Show the PO Box Address they assign you on all your pleadings, etc. as your
"ADDRESS OF RECORD FOR ALL SERVICE BY MAIL: [followed by Paperless PO Box
assigned address]"  —  which I put in BOLD TYPE immediately below my
physical address on the face page of all filings.

Paperless PO Box assigns you a U.S. P.O. Box address in San Francisco [where
paperlesspobox is located].  The get the mail and open it, scan it, and
e-mail it to you in Adobe Acrobat format ready to drop into your electronic
files.  Also, you can go onto their site and download your mail.

Among other things, this gives you a great way to show if something was or
was not received [i.e., when somebody claims to have sent you something they
did not], since paperlesspobox assigns a unique identifying number to each
mail piece received.

If you need the original of any mail piece, they will get it to you  —
overnight if you wish.

They also have additional services [e.g., at your option, they will OCR,
they will send you periodic CDs containing all your mail for the preceding
period, they will retain originals for an extended period, they will scan in
black and white or color, they will filter out junk mail, etc.].  There are
a few [but only a few] annoying glitches.  For example, their duplex
scanners will sometimes interpret the backside of a hole-punched page to be
a page which is part of the document, so you will sometimes have to
eliminate these "blank" pages from the image you receive from them.  This is
only really annoying with ultra-long documents.

YVONNE M. RENFREW  [[email protected]]
Telephone:     323-222-0500 [Toll Free 888-752-7752]
Facsimile:     323-222-5600


 

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   Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:58:43 -0800
   From: Charles Whisonant <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: VOIP


Up until the last paragraph I could have written this post (except I use
Accessline instead of RingCentral). So what is this service that scans your
mail and emails it to you? I am interested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Charlie Whisonant

Yvonne M. Renfrew wrote:

>Stuart Levine wrote: 
>
>"Does anyone on this list use VOIP either for home or, more 
>importantly, for the office.  The bells and whistles look great, but I 
>am concerned about sound quality.  Is the sound quality sufficient for
business use?"
>
>Vonage is great.
>
>However, I ALSO use RingCentral [www.ringcentral.com] "on top" of 
>Vonage, which gives me, for a flat rate, UNLIMITED incoming toll free 
>calls, which I then have forwarded to my Vonage numbers and cell phone.
>
>RingCentral lets anyone call or send a fax to me toll-free.  I can 
>forward the toll free number to a specific number, or have RingCentral 
>hunt me down by calling a bunch of numbers, which it can ring 
>sequentially or all at once.  Also, I have a slight preference for 
>RingCentral's voice mail over Vonage's.  Both will e-mail your messages 
>to you [absolutely great for sole practitioners who travel].
>
>I have noticed a very slight tendency for Vonage to drop calls during 
>our recent thunderstorms.  [But then, I was hiding under the bed 
>anyway.]
>
>I should add that I have an extremely high speed  internet connection, 
>and I'm not sure I would be as enthusiastic about VOIP if I tried it 
>with limited bandwidth.
>
>Here's what I suggest.  To try out Vonage, keep your old POTS account 
>for a few weeks, and just use remote call forwarding to forward all 
>calls to your Vonage number.  Your calls will then come to you over 
>VOIP, and you can see if you like it.  If you do like VOIP, you can 
>port then your existing phone numbers to Vonage [under the phone number 
>portability provisions].  If you don't like VOIP,  just turn off remote 
>call forwarding, and you are instantly back to where you started.
>
>An added plus:  Vonage make available to existing customers a "Softphone"
>for $10 per month.  This is a software phone which operates from and on 
>your laptop.  When you go to New York, for example, if you have your 
>laptop with you, then you have a phone which you can use with any high 
>speed internet connection.  Not only do you avoid extortionate hotel 
>phone rates, but calls to your office can reach you, since you will have
forwarded your "regular"
>Vonage calls to your office to your "Softphone" number and/or cell.  
>You can achieve the same result by just taking with you the small 
>adapter and plugging it into the Hotel's internet connection, but 
>believe me, the Softphone is much more convenient.  [So much so that I 
>use it constantly even when in the office.]
>
> 
>I have found my VOIP set-up, especially when added to another service 
>which scans and sends to me via e-mail my U.S. Mail, to be absolutely 
>indispensable.  If you are a sole practitioner, this combo may actually 
>permit you to take a vacation without spending sleepless nights.
> 
>
>YVONNE M. RENFREW  [[email protected]]
>
>Telephone:     323-222-0500 [Toll Free 888-752-7752]
>
>Facsimile:       323-222-5600
>
> 
>
>
>  
>






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