Send Postal Letters Anywhere in the World Through Internet – Email to Snail Mail

There are three reasons why you may want to send emails as paper letters using snail mail:
1. Some of your relatives live in remote villages where they don’t have computers let alone access to Internet.

2. Your grandparents know computers but they’ll probably feel more happy if you could send them emails and photographs in paper form that they can read in the lawn outside.
3. You are trying to reach someone who already gets a few hundred email messages per day. Your email may get lost in the clutter but if you take the snail mail approach, chances are high that he or she will at least read your message if not respond to it.

How to Send Email as Snail Mail?

Print your email message, insert it into an envelope, rush to the nearest post office, buy some postage stamps and drop the letter in a post box.
Well that’s one of the option but it involves too much work so we’ll shift attention to some automated email to snail mail services that enable us to send paper mail right from the computer at our home.
These web based letter printing and dispatching services work more or less the same way. You send then an email or upload the document as Word or PDF on to their servers, make the payment online and they’ll send the letter via regular postal mail to the specified physical address.

Email to Postal Mail Services – A Comparison

	Pricing	Colored Printing	Payment Options	What’s Unique?
Postal Methods	$1 for US addresses and $1.5 for international addresses	No	Credit Cards	More useful for bulk mails as price decreases with volume
Mail a Letter	$1 for US addresses and $2 for international addresses	Yes	Credit Cards, PayPal, Google Checkout	You can add a self addressed envelope with the letter
Postful	$1 for US addresses and $1.5 for international addresses	Yes	Credit Cards, PayPal, Google Checkout	You can send colored photos as postcards
EZGram	$1 for US addresses and $1.6 for non-US addresses	Yes	Credit Cards and PayPal	Supports USPS Priority Mail for quick delivery
L-Mail	Around $1 – depends on country	No	Credit Cards and Debit Cards	Supports Braille and audio letters
Click 2 Mail	Recommended for bulk mail	Yes	Credit Cards	Supports Product Flyers, Booklets and Postcards
Email 2 Postal	$1 for US addresses	No	Credit Cards	Supports handwritten envelopes and greeting cards
PC 2 Paper	$0.8 for UK and $1.5 for non-UK addresses	Yes	Credit Cards, Paypal and Nochex	Offers a real UK based postal address for incoming post

All the web based post mail services discussed above let you send letters from anywhere in the world to any other destination. There are some country specific services like Via Post (for UK), Pixel Letter (for European Union), Snail Mail Me (for Canada) and India Post (for residents of India) that may turn out to be cheaper if are sending letters to any of these countries.
Also, of the services listed above, only L-Mail has offices (or rather printing stations) in quite a few international locations (including Mumbai in India) and thus it can deliver mails more quickly (and cheaply) depending upon the destination address. And if you insist on sending colored letters or documents, Postful may be a good choice as they don’t charge extra for colored prints.