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Yeah... well... the street address used for the boxes, and published on the web site, says Texas so all you've discovered is that they're at least serious enough to have filed for a trademark. BTW, I only meant that as an example. There are plenty of re-mailing services available. If I were in the market for one, I'm probably try the one associated with the Foreign Buyers Club out of Kobe (I've never tried using them for re-mailing but I've been a customer for many years and I know they're legit). The largest private box services in the States are UPS and Mail Boxes, Etc (the latter now owned by Kinkos). I didn't suggest them because I don't know for sure if they support applying for a box online. For the first several years I had all my Stateside email going to an MBE in California and they, for a fee, would send the stuff to Tokyo. Of course, that's probably not as relevant to Darren, who I assume has never lived in the US.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:28 AM, CL <az.4tlug@example.com> wrote:

On 01/17/2014 07:54 PM, Joe Larabell wrote:

Check this out: http://www.usa2me.com/site/pgeInternationalMastercard.aspx

Especially the part that says: "The vendor will only accept a card with a US billing address?". I don't know how reliable this particular site is -- I just found it with a Google search. They claim to offer US-based re-mailing as well.

More than you wanted to know, unless you're serious about following up, here is all I can find on the company:

http://www.trademarkia.com/usa2me-78682139.html

On Saturday, July 30, 2005, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for USA2ME by Kali Group, L.P., Houston, TX 77043. The USPTO has given the USA2ME trademark serial number of 78682139. The current federal status of this trademark filing is SECTION 8 & 15-ACCEPTED AND ACKNOWLEDGED. The correspondent listed for USA2ME is KALI GROUP, L.P. of #1000, 10685-B HAZELHURST DR, HOUSTON TX 77043 . The USA2ME trademark is filed in the category of Transportation & Storage Services . The description provided to the USPTO for USA2ME is Postal services, namely, parcel delivery, packaging articles for transportation, rental of mail boxes.

The Texas Secretary of State's Office should has a public access site that allows you to view the company's registration and get the names of the Principals ... for US$1.00 per search, using a credit card ... (are we detecting a pattern, yet?)

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/sosda/index.shtml

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