Your Hambden Filing Cabinet Has Tax Returns From 2008. Digitize Them.

The filing cabinet in your home office on Bascom Road has four drawers. The bottom drawer is stuck. The third drawer holds tax returns from 2008, 2009, 2010. The second drawer has medical bills from your father's stay in 2015. The top drawer has farm receipts from when you still kept horses.

You need the 2017 tax return for a refinance. You spend twenty minutes flipping through manila folders. You find it between a water bill from 2016 and a warranty for a refrigerator you sold at the garage sale in 2019.

This is a problem that repeats itself. Every time you need a specific paper, you dig through the same cabinet. Every time you dig, the papers get more wrinkled. Every time you wrinkle them, you tell yourself you will organize them next weekend.

What Scanning Does

Bring the whole drawer to Mailbox Plus. We feed every page through a high-speed scanner. The scanner handles standard paper sizes up to legal. It reads both sides at once.

You get back a PDF. Every page in order. Searchable text — the scanner runs OCR on each document. You can search "2017 tax return" and find it in seconds. You can email it to your lender from your phone while you stand at our counter.

The originals go back in your cabinet. Or you shred them. Your call.

What People Scan

Old farm records. Tax returns going back a decade. Medical bills and insurance explanations of benefits. Deeds and property surveys. Old pay stubs for a mortgage application. School records. Handwritten recipes on index cards. Letters from family members who have passed.

The machine does not care what the document says. It scans text, handwriting, typed forms, carbon copies. It reads the faded ink on that 1987 receipt from the Hambden Feed Mill. It catches the date stamp on the back of the insurance form.

The Cost of Not Scanning

Your filing cabinet holds between 2,000 and 5,000 pages. You have spent hours of your life searching through it. You have missed deadlines because you could not find the right form. You have paid late fees because the bill was buried in the stack.

The first time you need a document and find it on your phone in ten seconds, the scanning pays for itself.

While You Wait

We scan while you wait if you have one drawer. We give you a timeline if you have more. The scanner runs at 40 pages per minute. A full drawer takes about 30 minutes.

You can also bring the documents in, leave them, and pick the digital files up later. We keep the originals safe in a locked cabinet until you return.

Fifteen Minutes From Hambden

Mailbox Plus is at 7554 Fredle Drive in Concord Township. Fifteen minutes from Hambden.

After you scan, we can shred the originals if you want the paper gone for good. No more filing cabinet. No more digging. No more wrinkled tax returns.

Bring your papers in. We scan them. You get digital files in your email. Done.