A Few Words About Storage By Mail

One of the main scenes in the Dave Eggers novel You Shall Know Our Velocity involves one of the main characters receiving a severe beating at the hands of a stranger. The character was visiting the a self storage facility in a bad part of town.

This is fiction, but it does highlight the fact that physiacally handling your own storage needs is not a pleasant task. The businesses will almost always be built where space is cheapest. There will always be a reason why the space is cheap.

StorageByMail.com offers a service where they pick your stuff up at your door. The key way in which you can save money with them is that you pay based on the actual volume of what you are storing. With other business models, you are stuck paying for a full unit of space, in some places as much as 200 cubic feet.

When you want to get your stuff brought back to your residence, it can be accomplished quickly and easily online using your member account, each box has a specific mailing and storage label that you print off at home. This is basically bringing supply logistics down to the level of the individual. I think it is neat.