Earth Class Mail CEO Sarah Carr Wins Stevie® Award for Best Executive at 7th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Earth Class Mail, a leader in providing online mail management solutions, announced today that CEO Sarah Carr won a Stevie Award for “Best Executive” at the annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, held Fri., Nov. 12, 2010, in New York City.

“Earth Class Mail is proud to provide such a valuable service to help customers streamline bookkeeping, operations, scanning, bill payment and check deposits and I look forward to leading the company into a profitable, innovative and exciting 2011.”

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, entrepreneurs and the organizations they run. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards^SM.

“I am deeply honored to be named a leader amongst such a distinguished group of executives,” said Carr, Earth Class Mail CEO and chairman of the board. “Earth Class Mail is proud to provide such a valuable service to help customers streamline bookkeeping, operations, scanning, bill payment and check deposits and I look forward to leading the company into a profitable, innovative and exciting 2011.”

Carr was appointed president of Earth Class Mail and promoted to CEO and chairman of the board in 2009. Upon being named CEO, her immediate mandate was to refocus the business to ensure its survival by stemming company losses of nearly a million dollars a month. Carr led the struggling company through a seismic shift, redefining the business model and ultimately putting the company on the road to recovery and profitability.

Prior to Earth Class Mail, Carr served president and COO of Print, Inc., leading the company in an advantageous sale to Pitney Bowes.

Stevie Awards were handed out in categories including Best Entrepreneur, Best Executive, Lifetime Achievement, and Women Helping Women at the gala event at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel on November 12. More than 1,200 entries from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration.

Finalists in the competition were chosen by business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging in September and October of 2010. Final judging was conducted by members of the awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors in late October to select Stevie Award winners from among the finalists.

Earth Class Mail was also a finalist for the Stevie Award for “Best Turnaround of the Year.”

Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of honorees are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.

About Earth Class Mail

Earth Class Mail, which is headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., provides postal online mail management solutions designed to meet the needs of individuals, small businesses and international license partners. Through an address network of P.O. Boxes and street addresses in 19 cities across the U.S., and with users in over 170 countries, Earth Class Mail provides complete online mail management services including document scanning and storage, check deposit, mail and package forwarding, will-call services and secure shredding and recycling. Our software license partner, Swiss Post, has launched Swiss Post Box in Europe, with addresses in five countries, providing its users with secure postal boxes with on-line access. For more information, please visit: http://www.earthclassmail.com.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Sponsors of the 7^th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business include the Business TalkRadio Network and KeyBank. Localization partner of the 2010 Stevie Awards is Lionbridge.