PostScan Mail advertises plans from $10 a month. That number is real, and there are two things about it that most comparison articles never mention.
The first is that $10 is one of eight prices for the same plan. Which one you pay depends on the address you pick, and the top of the range is $45 for the identical plan.
The second matters more. The $10 Starter plan does not include Open and Scan. It will photograph the outside of your envelope. It will not open it and show you what is inside, which is the entire reason most people buy a virtual mailbox.
I run Ecommerce Paradise from Bali and I have used US mailing addresses for my businesses for years. Here is the full matrix, the add-on fees, and the plan I would actually pick.
Check Your Address Tier Before You Compare Prices
The same plan runs $10 to $45 a month depending on which address you choose. The headline price is the floor, not the rate.
The Full Price Matrix
Every figure here came off PostScan Mail’s own pricing page, read in September 2026. There are three plans and eight address price tiers, so there are 24 possible monthly prices.
| Plan | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 | Tier 6 | Tier 7 | Tier 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $10 | $15 | $20 | $25 | $30 | $35 | $40 | $45 |
| Standard | $20 | $25 | $30 | $35 | $40 | $45 | $50 | $55 |
| Premium | $30 | $35 | $40 | $45 | $50 | $55 | $60 | $65 |
The structure is perfectly regular once you see it. Every step up in address tier adds $5 a month. Every step up in plan adds $10 a month. Nothing is arbitrary, it is just never presented as a table anywhere on the page, because the page shows you one column at a time based on the address you are looking at.
PostScan does not publish which cities sit in which tier on the pricing page. You find that out by picking an address. So the practical advice is simple: choose your address first, then read the price, then compare. Comparing on the headline $10 is comparing against the cheapest address in the network, which may be nowhere you want your business mail going.
What Each Plan Actually Includes
This is where the real decision lives, and it has nothing to do with the address tier.
| Plan | Letters or packages | Open and Scan | Recipients |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 30 per month | Not included | 1 |
| Standard | 60 per month | 5 per month | 2 |
| Premium | 120 per month | 10 per month | 4 |
Read the Open and Scan row again, because it is the whole ballgame.
A virtual mailbox does two things. It receives your mail, and it shows you what the mail says. Starter does the first and not the second. You get a photograph of the envelope and then you decide whether to pay to have it opened, forwarded, or shredded.
For a business address that is not a workable plan. Supplier agreements, state filing notices, bank correspondence and chargeback letters all arrive in envelopes that look like every other envelope. Knowing that something arrived from your Secretary of State is not the same as knowing what it says.
So the honest floor for a business is Standard, not Starter. That moves the entry price from $10 to $20 at the cheapest address, and from $45 to $55 at the most expensive.
Even Standard only includes 5 opens a month. If you get more than about one piece of real business mail a week, you are either upgrading to Premium or paying per item.
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What the Eight Tiers Are Actually Buying
PostScan does not label the tiers on the pricing page, so I want to be careful about what I claim here.
What the page establishes for certain is that there are eight price levels, that they step in $5 increments, and that the level is attached to the address rather than to the plan. What it does not state is the rule that assigns an address to a tier.
The reasonable inference, and I am flagging it as an inference rather than a fact, is that the tiers track how desirable the address is. A street address in a major business district costs more to operate and reads better on a letterhead than one in a small town, and pricing that difference is the obvious reason to build an eight-level system in the first place.
What that means practically is that you are making two decisions, not one. You choose a plan based on how much mail you get and whether you need it opened. You choose an address based on what it needs to look like to whoever will read it.
Those decisions are independent, and the price is the sum of both. A cheap plan at an expensive address and an expensive plan at a cheap address can land within a few dollars of each other while being completely different products.
If nobody will ever look at your address, take the cheap tier and put the money into the plan. If suppliers or a bank will read it, the address tier is where the money should go.
Annual Billing Gives You Two Months Free
PostScan bills annual plans as a yearly total and shows the effective monthly rate alongside it. The maths is clean: you pay ten months for twelve.
| Starter, by address tier | Billed annually | Effective monthly | Versus paying monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | $100 | $8.33 | Saves $20 |
| Tier 2 | $150 | $12.50 | Saves $30 |
| Tier 3 | $200 | $16.67 | Saves $40 |
| Tier 4 | $250 | $20.83 | Saves $50 |
A flat 16.7 percent discount, applied consistently across every tier and every plan. No tricks, no first-year rate that jumps on renewal. In a category where renewal games are common, that is worth saying plainly.
The Package Lockers Are a Separate Bill
If you are having physical goods delivered rather than just paper, there is a second subscription.
| Basic Locker | Premium Locker | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $4.95 | $9.95 |
| Processing fee | $3 per item | $2 per item |
| Forwarding fee | $2 per item | $1 per item |
| Free storage | First 7 days | First 14 days |
| Storage after that | $0.10 per pound per day | $0.10 per pound per day |
The break-even between the two lockers is easy to work out. Premium costs $5 more per month and saves $1 on processing plus $1 on forwarding per item. If you process and forward three or more packages a month, Premium is cheaper. Below that, Basic wins.
The storage clock is the part worth watching if you travel. At $0.10 per pound per day, a 20 pound package sitting for three weeks past the free window is $42, which is more than most people’s monthly plan.
What a Year Actually Costs
Plan prices in this category are small enough that people skip the annual maths, which is exactly how the add-ons end up doubling the bill without anyone noticing.
| Setup | Monthly | Per year, paying monthly | Per year, paying annually |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, cheapest address | $10 | $120 | $100 |
| Standard, cheapest address | $20 | $240 | $200 |
| Standard, cheapest address, plus Premium Locker | $29.95 | $359.40 | $319.40 |
| Standard, most expensive address | $55 | $660 | $550 |
| Premium, most expensive address | $65 | $780 | $650 |
The locker line assumes the locker itself is billed monthly at $9.95 regardless of how the plan is billed, since it is a separate subscription. It also excludes per-item processing and forwarding fees, which are genuinely usage-dependent and impossible to model for you.
Those per-item fees are where the estimate breaks down for anyone receiving products. Ten forwarded packages a month on the Basic Locker is $30 in processing and $20 in forwarding, which is $600 a year on top of everything in that table. On the Premium Locker the same volume is $360. That single difference is worth more than the plan choice.
The honest summary is that the plan price is the predictable part and the smallest part. If packages are involved, model the fees before you model the subscription.
How This Compares
PostScan is genuinely one of the cheaper options in this category, and the gap against the premium end is large.
The clearest contrast is with US Global Mail, which starts at $49 a month on annual billing. That figure is on its own pricing page.
Even PostScan’s Standard plan at the most expensive address tier, $55 a month, is roughly level with US Global Mail’s entry plan rather than above it. At the cheap end of the address range PostScan’s Standard is $20 against $49, which is less than half. The full ladder is in the US Global Mail pricing guide.
The structural difference is worth understanding. PostScan operates a network of hundreds of locations, which is why there are eight address tiers and why the price depends on where you pick. US Global Mail runs one facility in Houston, which is why it has one price and a more consistent experience.
Neither model is better in the abstract. A network gives you choice of city and a cheap entry point. A single facility gives you consistency. Which matters more depends on whether you care what your address looks like on a supplier application.
The Comparison Everyone Gets Wrong
Almost every roundup of virtual mailboxes puts PostScan at $10 and a competitor at $30 or $49 and calls it settled. That comparison is wrong twice over.
It is wrong on the address, because $10 is one of eight prices and the reader has no idea which one applies to them until they pick a city. It is wrong on the product, because the $10 plan does not open mail and the competitors being compared against it do.
The like-for-like comparison for someone running a business is PostScan Standard at your chosen address against the other service’s entry plan. Done that way the gap narrows a lot, and at the expensive address tiers it closes almost entirely.
None of which makes PostScan a bad deal. At the cheaper address tiers it is genuinely one of the least expensive credible options in this category, and the annual discount is clean. It just is not the four-times-cheaper story the tables imply.
The CMRA Point That Applies to All of Them
One thing no pricing page in this category makes obvious.
Every one of these addresses is a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency address. The USPS rules covering CMRAs require a completed and verified Form 1583, which is why signup involves notarised identification rather than just a card number.
The practical consequence is that some banks and payment processors recognise CMRA addresses and will not accept them for know-your-customer checks. If your reason for buying a mailbox is opening a US business bank account from abroad, confirm with that specific bank before you subscribe, because a cheap mailbox that gets rejected at account opening has cost you time rather than saved you money.
Which Plan I Would Actually Pick
Being specific, because a matrix with 24 cells invites paralysis.
If the address is for a real business: Standard, at whatever your chosen address costs. The 5 included opens and 2 recipients cover a solo operator with an LLC, and you are not stuck paying per item to read your own mail.
If you are receiving physical products: Standard plus the Premium Locker, and watch the storage clock. That is $20 plus $9.95 at the cheapest address, so about $30 a month all in.
If it is genuinely just personal mail while you travel: Starter is fine, and this is the one case where the $10 headline is honest. You are buying an address and a forwarding service, not a scanning service.
What I would not do: buy Starter for a business because the price looked good, then discover in month two that reading a supplier contract costs extra every single time.
Where the Mailbox Fits in the Build Order
Worth saying, because this is a purchase people make far too early.
You need a business address once there is a business to attach it to. Before that, the questions that matter are what you sell and who will supply it. The high-ticket niches list settles the first and costs nothing.
The address becomes genuinely necessary when you register an entity, because distributors ask for one and a residential address weakens an application. That step is covered in the business formation guide.
Supplier approval is the actual gate on this business, and the address is one small part of looking legitimate to a distributor. The rest is in the supplier outreach guide. If you are still deciding whether this model suits you, start with what high-ticket dropshipping actually is.
Read the Full Review Before You Sign Up
The review covers the mobile app, scanning turnaround, the location network, and where PostScan is genuinely beaten.
Common Questions
How much does PostScan Mail cost in 2026?
Starter runs $10 to $45 a month, Standard $20 to $55, and Premium $30 to $65, depending on which address you choose. There are eight address price tiers and each step adds $5 a month. Annual billing costs ten months for twelve.
Why do I see a different price than the advertised $10?
Because $10 is the Starter plan at the cheapest address tier. The same plan is $45 at the most expensive. The price you see depends on the address you selected, not on any promotion having expired.
Does the $10 plan scan my mail?
Not the contents. Starter does not include Open and Scan, so you see the outside of the envelope. Opening and scanning the inside starts on Standard, which includes 5 per month.
How much does the package locker cost?
Basic Locker is $4.95 a month with a $3 processing fee and $2 forwarding fee per item, and 7 free storage days. Premium Locker is $9.95 a month with $2 processing, $1 forwarding, and 14 free storage days. Both charge $0.10 per pound per day after the free window.
Is annual billing worth it?
Yes, if you are keeping the address. It is a flat 16.7 percent saving across every plan and tier, which is two months free, with no renewal price jump.
How many people can receive mail at the address?
One recipient on Starter, two on Standard, four on Premium. A recipient is a name legally permitted to receive mail there, so an LLC plus your own name is already two.
The Short Version
There are 24 possible monthly prices: three plans across eight address tiers. Starter is $10 to $45, Standard $20 to $55, Premium $30 to $65.
The advertised $10 is the cheapest plan at the cheapest address, and that plan does not open your mail. For a business address the real floor is Standard.
Package handling is a separate subscription at $4.95 or $9.95 a month plus per-item fees, and the storage meter runs at $0.10 per pound per day once the free window closes.
Annual billing is a clean two months free with no renewal trick, which is unusual enough in this category to be worth taking once you know which plan you actually need.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
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