US Global Mail does not have a cheap plan any more. The entry tier is $49 a month billed annually, and $65 a month if you pay monthly. That is $588 a year at the low end, for a mailbox.
If you remember this service as a $19-a-month product, that memory is out of date, and so is a lot of the writing about it online. I have kept my own review honest about that.
I run Ecommerce Paradise from Bali and I have used a US mailing address for my business since I left Seattle. Here is what the current pricing actually is, what the add-ons do to the bill, and the specific case where paying this much is the right call.
Know the Real Number Before You Sign Up
The cheapest plan is $588 a year on annual billing. There is no $19 tier and there has not been for a while.
The Full Ladder
These figures came off US Global Mail’s own pricing page, read in September 2026. The page has a monthly and annual toggle, and both numbers are below.
| Plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | Cost per year, annual | Cost per year, monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale | $49/mo | $65/mo | $588 | $780 |
| Teams | $99/mo | $129/mo | $1,188 | $1,548 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Unpublished | Unpublished |
Annual billing saves about 25 percent on Scale and 23 percent on Teams. In dollars that is $192 a year on Scale and $360 a year on Teams. US Global Mail also states there are no long-term contracts and you can cancel any time, which makes the annual commitment less risky than it looks.
The Plan Names Changed, Not Just the Prices
This is the part that explains why so much of what you will read about this service is wrong, including my own review until I updated it today.
US Global Mail used to sell Essentials at $19.95, Virtual Teams at $45 and Enterprise at $85. Those plan names are not on the pricing page any more. What is there now is Scale, Teams and Enterprise, and the sign-up links behind the buttons carry plan types of SCALE and TEAMS rather than anything called Essentials.
So this is not a price increase on the same product. It is a repositioning. The old entry plan aimed at an individual expat with moderate mail. The current entry plan is named Scale and described in terms of ongoing operational mail, which is a different customer.
I cannot tell you whether existing Essentials customers were moved, grandfathered, or left alone, because the page does not say and I am not going to guess at something that affects somebody’s bill. If you are an existing customer, that is the question to ask support before your next renewal.
What I can tell you is that any article quoting $19.95 as the current entry price, mine included until this week, is describing a lineup that is no longer on sale.
What Scale Actually Includes
Scale is the plan most people reading this would buy, so it is worth being specific about what one seat means.
| What you get on Scale | Included |
|---|---|
| Users | 1, additional available as a paid add-on |
| Recipients | 10, additional available as a paid add-on |
One user is the part that catches people. If you and a business partner both need to log in and manage mail, that is a second seat, and the second seat is not free.
Ten recipients is generous by comparison. A recipient is a name that can legally receive mail at your address, so a solo operator with an LLC typically needs two or three, not ten.
The Add-Ons
Four things sit outside the plan price, and they are all metered rather than flat.
| Add-on | Price | What triggers it |
|---|---|---|
| Additional users | $25 per user, billed monthly | Anyone besides you who needs account access |
| Extra recipients | $5 per recipient | Names beyond the 10 included |
| Mail storage | $0.05 per mail item per day | Letters kept past the free storage window |
| Package storage | $0.10 per pound per day | Packages kept past the free storage window |
Scan bundles are also sold separately at a discount, which tells you scanning volume is metered rather than unlimited.
The storage line is the one worth modelling if you travel. A single package sitting for a month at 5 pounds is $15. Two of those while you are somewhere without a forwarding address and you have added a third of your monthly plan cost.
Adding one teammate takes Scale from $49 to $74 a month on annual billing, which is $888 a year. That is a 51 percent increase for one login.
Building the Business Behind the Mailbox?
A mailing address is one line item. We build and launch the whole high-ticket store, suppliers and all, so the address has a business attached to it.
How This Compares on Price Alone
The honest framing is that US Global Mail is now one of the more expensive options in its category, and the gap is not small.
PostScan Mail advertises plans starting as low as $10 a month. That figure is on its own pricing page. One caveat on that figure that most comparison articles skip: PostScan’s rate depends on which address you pick, and their own page shows the same tier at $10, $15, $20, $25, $30, $35, $40 and $45 depending on location. So “as low as $10” is a real price at some addresses and not at others. Check the address you actually want before you compare. The full matrix is in the PostScan Mail pricing guide.
Even taking the higher end of PostScan’s range, the entry point is well under half of US Global Mail’s $49. So the question is not whether US Global Mail is more expensive. It is. The question is what the extra buys.
There is a second reason the gap is wider than it looks. US Global Mail includes one user, so a two-person business is really comparing $74 a month against the cheaper service’s headline rate, not $49. Seat pricing is where these services diverge most and where comparison tables tend to stop looking.
None of that makes the cheaper option better. It makes the comparison honest. A service at a third of the price that loses a supplier contract in the post has cost you far more than the difference.
What the Extra Money Actually Buys
I want to be fair here, because a price gap is not automatically a rip-off.
US Global Mail operates its own facility in Houston rather than franchising the address out to whichever mailbox store is nearest you. That is why the address is consistent and why the scanning quality and turnaround are consistent. The cheaper end of this market is often a network of independently owned stores, and the experience varies with whoever is behind the counter that day.
They also state they serve more than 100,000 clients, which for this category is genuine scale and matters for the one thing you actually care about: that your mail does not disappear.
The full feature-level comparison is in my US Global Mail review. If you want the head to head against the other established option, the Traveling Mailbox comparison covers where each one wins.
The CMRA Limitation Nobody Prices In
One thing that no pricing table shows and that matters more than the monthly figure.
A virtual mailbox address is a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency address. The USPS rules covering CMRAs require you to file a Form 1583 and have it verified, which is why every one of these services asks for notarised identification during signup.
The practical consequence is that banks and payment processors can often tell a CMRA address from a residential or commercial one, and some will not accept it for know-your-customer checks. That is not a US Global Mail problem specifically, it applies across this whole category, but it does mean the mailbox may not solve the exact problem you bought it for.
If your reason for wanting the address is opening a US business bank account from overseas, verify with that specific bank before you pay for twelve months. Plenty of sellers have bought a mailbox for that purpose and found it rejected at the account-opening stage.
Who Should Pay $588 a Year for a Mailbox
Here is where I would draw the line, based on what the address is doing for you.
Worth it: you are running a real business through the address. It is on your LLC filing, your bank has it, suppliers send you documents there, and a lost or mishandled piece of mail costs you a supplier relationship or a compliance deadline. At that point $49 a month is cheap insurance on something that would be genuinely painful to unwind.
Worth it: you are outside the US long-term and this address is the only fixed point your business has. If you are reading this from Southeast Asia like I am, the address is not a convenience, it is infrastructure.
Not worth it: you want a nicer place to receive occasional personal mail while you travel for a few months. That is a $10 to $20 problem and there are services priced for it.
Not worth it: you have not started the business yet. A mailing address is not step one, and paying $588 a year while you decide what to sell is a way to feel productive without being productive.
Where the Mailbox Fits in the Build Order
Worth stating plainly, because this is a purchase people make far too early.
You need a business address once you have a business to attach it to. Before that, the questions that matter are what you sell and who supplies it. The high-ticket niches list settles the first one and costs nothing.
The address becomes genuinely necessary at the point where you are registering an entity, because distributors will ask for one. That step is covered end to end in the business formation guide.
Supplier approval is the real gate on this business, and the address is one small piece of looking like a legitimate operation to a distributor. The rest of it is in the supplier outreach guide. If you are still working out whether this model is for you at all, start with what high-ticket dropshipping actually is.
Questions Worth Asking Before You Commit
Four things I would want answered, because the published page does not settle them.
How many free storage days do I get before the meter starts? The rates are published at $0.05 per item per day and $0.10 per pound per day, but the free window before those kick in is what decides whether storage is a rounding error or a real cost.
What is included in scanning, and where do the scan bundles start? Scanning is the core of the product. If bundles are sold separately, there is a threshold somewhere, and you want to know it before you hit it.
Which refund promise governs, the marketing page or the contract? The pricing page says every plan includes a 30-day money-back guarantee with a full refund, no retention calls. The terms of service say all fees are non-refundable and non-cancellable, and that no prepaid fees are refunded on termination. Those two statements cannot both be operative, and it is worth getting the answer in writing before you pay for a year.
Does the address work for my registered agent or LLC filing requirements? A commercial mail receiving agency address is accepted in some contexts and not others. This is worth confirming for your specific state before you build your filings around it.
What This Costs Against the Rest of the Stack
Worth putting the number next to the other fixed costs a small store carries, because $588 a year does not sit in isolation.
For most of the high-ticket operators I work with, the recurring stack is a Shopify plan, an email tool, an accounting tool, a registered agent, and the mailbox. The mailbox at $49 a month is frequently the second or third largest line on that list, ahead of email and often ahead of the registered agent.
That is not an argument against it. It is an argument for knowing where it ranks, because when people trim costs they usually start with the line they remember paying for, and a mailbox is easy to forget until something important arrives in it.
The version of this that goes wrong is cancelling a mailbox to save $49 while a supplier application, a state filing notice, or a chargeback letter is in transit. If you are going to economise, economise somewhere with a shorter tail.
The Annual Decision
Annual billing saves $192 on Scale and $360 on Teams, which is real money at this price point.
There is also a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan, which lowers the risk of committing early. The reason I would still start monthly is the storage question above. Until you know how your own mail volume interacts with the metered add-ons, your true monthly cost is not $49, it is $49 plus an unknown. Run it for two months, see the real bill, then switch to annual once you know what you are committing to.
At a 25 percent discount, waiting two months to switch costs you about $32. That is a cheap way to avoid locking in a plan sized for the wrong usage.
Read the Full Review First
The review covers scanning quality, forwarding speed, the Houston facility, and where cheaper services genuinely beat this one.
Common Questions
How much does US Global Mail cost in 2026?
Scale is $49 a month billed annually or $65 billed monthly. Teams is $99 a month annually or $129 monthly. Enterprise is quoted rather than published. Annual billing saves roughly 25 percent.
Is there a cheaper US Global Mail plan?
No. Scale at $49 a month on annual billing is the entry point. Older articles quoting $9.99 or $19 a month are describing pricing that is no longer on their page.
How many users are included?
One. Additional users are $25 each per month, billed monthly. Scale also includes 10 recipients, with extra recipients at $5 each.
What does storage cost?
After the free window, letters are $0.05 per item per day and packages are $0.10 per pound per day. Confirm how long the free window runs before you rely on it.
Is US Global Mail worth it compared to cheaper services?
It depends on what the address is doing. For a real operating business where lost mail costs you a supplier or a filing deadline, yes. For occasional personal mail while travelling, the cheaper end of the market is priced for that job and this is not.
Is there a contract?
No long-term contracts, and monthly plans cancel immediately. The pricing page also promises a 30-day money-back guarantee with a full refund of your plan cost. One thing to be aware of: the terms of service say the opposite, that all fees are non-refundable and that prepaid fees are not returned on termination. The marketing promise is the more specific and more recent statement, but if you are paying for twelve months up front, get the refund terms confirmed in writing first.
The Short Version
Scale is $49 a month annually and $65 monthly. Teams is $99 and $129. There is no cheap tier and the $19 figure floating around the internet is stale.
One user is included. A second login is $25 a month, which is a 51 percent increase on the entry plan for one seat.
Storage is metered at $0.05 per letter per day and $0.10 per pound per day for packages, so your real cost depends on how long things sit.
Cheaper options exist and start under half this. The reason to pay the difference is a company-operated facility rather than a franchised storefront, which matters when the address is load-bearing for a real business and not otherwise.
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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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