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Do you hate the idea of visiting your storage unit to get something?  Then storagebymail is for you.  You can ship boxes of “can’t part with” items to their warehouses and have them ship them back to you when you again need them. Here's how it works:

You pack a box with, say 45 lbs. of goodies, call the USPS and have them pick it up (for free), they deliver it to one of a number of storagebymail warehouses in the US.  The boxes are bar coded and stored in a secure part of the facility until you want them.  Then the USPS delivers them to your door, or anywhere else you want them sent. You pay a monthly rental depending on the number of cubic feet your boxes take up.  

From a warehouse owner's perspective, this is a pretty innovative way to compete with self storage facilities, one of the major growth areas in the warehouse business over the last decade. From the consumer's perspective, this saves a few trips to the out-of-the way, frequently closed self storage unit that is twice the size you need.  Of course, this will not work for furniture and other assorted stuff you will never use again, but face it, you will never use those again, and Goodwill will gladly take it off your hands.