Private Mailbox

A private mailbox (PMB) is a safe and private way for people to receive and access their mail. They are found at their respective private residences and businesses. A PMB offers a real street address and is commonly the mailbox at your house. Private mailboxes can provide more professional impressions than other types of mailboxes.

Private mailboxes are an important aspect of a company’s or business’ impression on their customers and clients. In addition, private mailboxes provide many benefits to their users elevating their importance and value. Private mailboxes can enhance a user's personal and professional life. Private mailboxes are open 24/7, convenient to their user's schedule.

• Abundance of Benefits: Private mailboxes are useful for users personal and professional life. With advanced privacy, security, convenience, and flexibility, private mailboxes provide many benefits to the companies and businesses that use them for day-to-day purposes.
• Mail and Packaging of Private Mailboxes: Private mailboxes come with a variety of features that improve a company or business’s experience while using them. Ranging from increased cost-effectiveness and mail notifications to mail forwarding and open acceptance from all shipping companies, private mailboxes provide many important features in their mail and packaging process that can actively improve their user's business.
• Structure of Addressing a Private Mailbox: Private mailboxes are structured with the first line being identification of the person receiving what you are sending, the second line being the private mailbox number, the third line being the street number, street name, and the fourth line being the city, state, and zip code.

Private Mailboxes (PMBs) are essential to companies and businesses who want a tangible location to receive and send mail. In addition to an actual street address, PMBs give companies more privacy and security than a public mailbox.

Benefits of a Private Mailbox

• Privacy: Unlike community mailboxes, such as P.O. boxes, private mailboxes stand alone on private property and are solely available to the owner.
• Security: Private mailboxes that are located on private property can offer more security for mail and packages than mailboxes located in post offices or in communal spaces. PMBs often have a lock in order to protect your mail and packages.
• Convenience: Private mailboxes allow workers to obtain and store their mail at their leisure, giving them time to complete other tasks as the PMB is located on premises of their property. Private mailboxes are open 24/7 allowing users to store and pick up mail and packages at their leisure.
• Flexibility: Private mailboxes give flexibility for workers as they are often much larger than mailboxes offered by postal offices. PMBs offer more space and give workers a place to store/receive mail for prolonged periods of time. These are more often than not

Mail/Package Handling

• Cost-Effective: Owning a private mailbox can decrease the amount of fees spent on other types of mailboxes, concerning shipping, storage, and handling.
• Acceptance From Shipping Companies: PMBs are able to receive mail and packaging from almost all shipping companies unlike regular mailboxes or P.O. boxes who can only receive mailing from certain companies.
• Mail Forwarding: Mail forwarding is unique to PMBs as it allows mail and packages to be shipped to users on the go or wherever they are.
• Mail Notifications: Private mailboxes can also be checked electronically allowing users to be notified when their shipment and mail have arrived.

How to Send Mail to a PMB

• First Line: The name or identification of the person you are sending to.
• Second Line: PMB Number
• Third Line: Street number, street name, or post office box number
• Fourth Line: City, State, and zip code

Example of Sending Mail to a PMB

Alex Smith

PMB #123

14 Central St

Dracut, MA, 12345

Alt. Formatting of Addressing a PMB

Alex Smith

14 Central St, PMB #123

Dracut, MA, 12345