This way we wouldn't have to update all of our accounts or re-brand. So, if our day jobs move away from downtown and our "permanent" address is no longer convenient, we can choose to have all our mail and packages forwarded to another address while still keeping our current address as a front.
UPS provides mail forwarding for a small additional fee. So far we haven't been disappointed on this front. Our small UPS store is locally owned and operated and we were assured that they would pay close attention in hopes of avoiding this issue. To continue on the package note: Being a paper/stationary type store, we were concerned that returns would get crammed into our small box therefore rending the products unusable for repurchase or that products shipped to us for resale would suffer the same fate. UPS is the clear winner in the package department. They also send you an e-mail or text whenever a package has been delivered. They will sign for your packages as well, uber convenient. The owner of our local UPS store said she will accept packages as large as pallet size deliveries. The UPS store can accept any package size and will hold it for you either in a larger holding box or behind the counter. They also won't hold anything that must be signed for - a big predicament. They will not hold packages shipped by Fedex, UPS, or other carriers. At the post office, if you have a package that won't fit into your box they will not hold it for you behind the counter unless it was shipped by USPS. One of the biggest differences is how packages are handled. Your mailbox is just identified by a suite number. With a UPS Box you have a physical street address rendering it acceptable to be used. We quickly noticed fine print that didn't register before "we do not accept PO Box for address", with one of those locations being our bank which was a big one, because we wanted a billing address that was consistent as well. After deciding on the PO Box we went through all of the UPstudio paperwork we had already filled out to change our address. Let us share the lessons we learned and the benefits of the UPS Mailbox: So, we signed the papers, and took a pretty picture. There were a lot of other pros and cons discovered in our research, but we thought based on the price we could live with the other limitations of the PO Box. The UPS Mailbox is significantly more, more than 3 times. 
The small, medium, and large boxes are comparable in size to the 1, 2, and 3 sizes respectively. UPS Mailbox Pricing ( find a location near you for pricing)
USPS PO Box Pricing (search for local prices here) Here is a comparison (these are for the downtown Raleigh locations, so prices might be different where you live): Being a start up, the biggest factor was price. So we did the research (read a lot of online sources and the fine print of the rental agreements) and decided that we wanted to go with a PO Box at the Post Office. That left us with two options, PO Box or UPS Mailbox? Our day jobs are on Fayetteville street in downtown Raleigh so we wanted a "permanent" address we could walk to, so that checking it wasn't inconvenient. Most importantly, a place that people could send us notes of encouragement! (sadly, this hasn't come up either - but you could change that!!).Having an address listed on your website makes it seem more legit.With our crazy lives, things sent to our houses might get overlooked.With all the paperwork involved in starting a company, we wanted to keep track of which address we submitted things under.Having a place that customers could return items (thankfully this hasn't come up yet).Privacy (not having to use our personal addresses).Soon after starting UPstudio we realized that a permanent address would really help us for a few reasons:
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