Why Choose save office
A company with a thousand addresses can't tell you much about any one of them. We have seven, and we publish what USPS says about each one. We write the guides ourselves and correct them when the rules change.
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Why Choose save office
Most companies in this business tell you how many addresses they have. That number doesn't tell you whether one of them will work for you. So we publish what does, and you can check it.
We went through business filings in California and Florida. In both states, about two out of three companies had the owner's home address in the public record, and many of them had paid a registered agent. We publish the USPS record for all seven of our own addresses too, including the two registered as mail receiving agencies. A company selling privacy should show its own first.
An address changes which address is public. Whether your name appears is set by your state's filing rules. We sell an address, not anonymity.
Three free checkers and 212 guides, all made here. When a rule changes we go back and correct the guide instead of leaving it up. Our address checker works on other companies' addresses as well as ours.
A bank or a state agency can turn down your application because of the address on it. The fine print in this business usually leaves that cost with you. We refund everything you paid for the address instead. And starting with Silicon Valley, we handle the mail ourselves.
If a government agency or bank denies your registration or account because of the address or documents we provided, email us the written denial letter within 30 days and we'll refund 100% of what you paid for that address.
What happens when you borrow an address instead of getting your own. See all our videos
The tools we built
Most companies in this business buy their mail software from someone else. We write ours: the three checkers below, the signup, the account pages. That is also why the price stays low. What we cut was office overhead and a sales team, not mail handling.
The checker in 30 seconds.
Type in any US address and see how USPS classifies it: commercial or residential, and whether it is registered as a mail receiving agency. It works on our addresses and on any company you are comparing us with.
Try it freeType in a company name and see whether a home address is already in the public record for it, and which filing put it there.
Try it freeCompare what each state requires before you register, so you choose based on the rules and not on what a blog post recommended.
Try it freeRun by us
Complaints in this business are always the same: mail that sat for a week, a scan that never arrived, a package thrown out. They happen when nobody at the company you paid can walk over and look at your mail. Silicon Valley is the location we run ourselves, so we can. Here is what we will do there.
Representative imagery. Photos show the Silicon Valley area and typical workspace, not your assigned address.
Your mail arrives at our office and we scan it that day. You are not waiting for another company to get to it.
You see what arrived before we open anything. We open a letter when you ask us to, and shred it when you tell us to.
We wrote the software that runs the mail room. Your mail never passes between two companies, which is where mail usually gets lost.
Privacy
When you form a company in the US, the state publishes the filing, and the filing includes the addresses you wrote on it. Search engines index those pages, and data-broker sites copy them. So if you used your home address on the filing, anyone who searches your company name can find where you live.
A save office address is a commercial street address, and you can use it in those address fields instead of your home address. The filing stays public either way. The difference is that the address it shows is an office building, not your home.
What a public filing shows
A business address controls which address appears on your filings. It does not control whether your name appears, because that is set by your state's filing rules, and it does not remove filings you made in the past from state archives. We sell an address, not anonymity.
People pay a registered agent to keep their home address out of the public record. We checked whether that works, in the two states where we could read every filing.
California: whose address ends up on the record
64.6%
own address
From the California business registry: 970,231 companies where both the agent address and the owner address were on file.
Florida: every new LLC filed last month
Named themselves as registered agent
so their own address is the one on file
Paid a professional agent, personal address still public
Owner's name published
Name and address published together
42,519 new domestic LLC filings, counted one by one. Published in full in our guide on registered agents.
We measured this two different ways, in two states, and both came out at about two thirds. Paying a registered agent does not by itself keep your home address out of the public record. Read how we counted
Seven addresses
USPS classifies all seven as commercial. Two of them, San Francisco and Washington DC, are registered as mail receiving agencies. You do not have to take our word for any of this. Put our addresses into our own checker and see for yourself.
Photos of the buildings our addresses are in. See every location
A CMRA registration is a rule the operator has to follow.
Every coworking space, virtual office, and shared office that receives mail for other people has to register with USPS. For you it means one extra identity form. It is not a reason to be rejected.
| Address | USPS class | CMRA registered | What you file |
|---|---|---|---|
| 447 BroadwayNew York — SoHo | Commercial | No | Nothing extra |
| 1178 Broadway, 3FNew York — NoMad | Commercial | No | Nothing extra |
| 28 Geary St #650San Francisco | Commercial | Registered | Form 1583, once |
| 1401 Pennsylvania Ave #105Delaware | Commercial | No | Nothing extra |
| 5005 W Laurel StTampa | Commercial | No | Nothing extra |
| 1235 Pennsylvania Ave SEWashington DC | Commercial | Registered | Form 1583, once |
| 1501 S Greeley Hwy #CWyoming | Commercial | No | Nothing extra |
USPS classification checked with Smarty, suite numbers included. Run any of these through our free checker and confirm it yourself — it works on other providers' addresses too.
What we publish
Every guide, every video, every newsletter. One video takes two to three hours to make. When a rule changes we go back and correct the guide, which happens most weeks.
100
hours of video
2–3 hours each, 33 videos
212
guides published
rewritten when the rules change
7
addresses
every USPS fact published
245
newsletter readers
new guides as they land
The promise is in the headline and the limit is in the fine print. We counted how often that limit fires.
Read the guide Getting StartedA CMRA registration is a compliance requirement, not a defect. Here is what the rules exclude, quoted.
Read the guide Legal & FinanceWhere your address is, where you are taxed, and where you register are three separate questions.
Read the guide Running Your BusinessHiding your name and hiding your address are different problems with different answers.
Read the guideAlso on Medium
The newsletter
When a new guide goes up, we email it to 245 readers. This is one of the emails we sent.
Run the address you have now through our free checker. It shows you how USPS classifies it — the same lookup a bank or a state filing office can do — and it works on any US address, including every one of ours.
Check an address for freeFour questions to ask anyone, including us
If another company will not answer these, that tells you something too.
save office is a virtual office provider specialized in privacy: a commercial business address that keeps your home address off public state filings, with a written refund promise if a bank or state agency rejects the address. Most providers compete on how many locations they list. We run a short list of verified addresses, publish the USPS facts about each one, and put the guarantees in writing.
Yes, for the filings you submit from now on. State business filings are public record, and whatever address you write on them gets indexed by search engines and copied by data-broker sites. If you use a save office address in those fields, the address that becomes public is a commercial building instead of your home. Two limits you should know upfront: filings you already made stay in state archives, and whether your name appears on a filing is set by your state's rules, not by the address. We sell an address, not anonymity.
Email us the written denial letter within 30 days and we refund 100% of what you paid for that address. We do not promise that a particular bank will approve you, because no address provider can. What we can do is carry the cost if it does not work out.
Because the number of addresses a company has tells you nothing about whether one of them will work for you. A company listing a thousand locations cannot publish what USPS says about each one, and none of them do. We would rather run a short list and show you the record for every address on it. One more thing worth knowing: your company does not have to be registered in the same state as your address, so a short list covers more situations than it looks like it does.
Whenever the rule behind a guide changes, which in practice means most weeks. State filing requirements, IRS guidance, and USPS rules each change at different times, so we watch them and go back to correct the guides we already published instead of only adding new ones. There are 212 guides so far.
Yes, including the parts that are less convenient for us. All seven are commercially classified. Two of them, San Francisco and Washington DC, are registered with USPS as mail receiving agencies, which means one extra identity document (Form 1583) and is a registration requirement rather than a defect. You can run all seven through our free checker and confirm it yourself.
