Stable virtual mailbox, compared with Virtual Mail Hub

The like-for-like pair is Stable Grow and Virtual Mail Hub Mailbox Volume. Both cover 30 pieces of mail a month. Grow is $49 billed annually or $59 month to month; Mailbox Volume is $15 annually or $35.99 month to month.

Above that pair, Stable Scale covers 50 pieces at $83 annually. Below it, our Address Only plan starts at $5 for six months and then $17.99, sized for light personal or business mail rather than a busy inbox.

The plans are not identical in what they bundle, so compare four numbers rather than one: the included item count, the rate for each item above it, the cost of an extra user seat, and the cost of a check deposit. All eight of those figures are published by both providers. The ones quoted here were read on August 28, 2026.

It depends on volume, and the reason it depends on volume is that providers price two separate things: the bundle and the overage. Comparing only the advertised plan price answers half the question.

Worked through: 30 pieces of mail a month costs $49 at Stable and $15 at Virtual Mail Hub, both billed annually. Add ten unexpected items and Stable adds $3 each, while Virtual Mail Hub adds $0.60 each. The plan-price gap and the busy-month gap are different numbers.

The same arithmetic works on any provider you are weighing, including ones neither of us sells against. Find the included count, the per-item rate, the seat cost and the deposit fee, then run them against a month you actually had rather than an average month. It takes about ten minutes and it is the only comparison that survives contact with a real mailbox.

They are two different things, and conflating them is the most common reason a business address fails a review.

A virtual address is where your mail is received. Any legitimate provider registers the location as a CMRA with the Postal Service, keeps a completed PS Form 1583 on file for each recipient, and addresses your mail with a PMB number. That is what makes it a real deliverable address, and it is enough for mail and for many state filings.

Proof of address is evidence of premises: documents in your company name showing where the business sits, typically a lease and a utility bill. A mailbox plan does not produce those, at either provider. Virtual Mail Hub's Verify plan does, by putting your company on a genuine commercial office lease. Whether any given bank or platform accepts a given address is their decision under their own published policy, so check it before you apply.

Easier than most people expect, because it does not have to happen in one day. You complete Form 1583 with the new provider, which since May 2024 can be witnessed by trained staff in person or over live video, at no charge and with no notary appointment.

Then you update senders in order of consequence: banks, the IRS and your state filings first, payment processors and marketplaces next, everything else as it arrives. Your previous provider keeps handling whatever is still addressed to them while you work down the list, so nothing is stranded in the gap.

The part worth planning is physical mail already sitting in storage. Ask what happens to it when the account closes. Stable's published policy holds physical mail for 30 days, and ours is 30. Either way, request forwarding or shredding of anything you still need before you cancel, not after.