Wednesday, when I checked my mail box, I had to throw most of the stuff away. Essentially, the task is really about weeding out lots of junk mail.

Well, Earth Class Mail thinks it has a better way. In fact, the company raised $13.3 million this week from investors including Ignition Partners and the Keiretsu Forum.

Basically, the service allows for online delivery of regular postal mail – for consumers and businesses. Yes, it's a cool "clicks and bricks" business model, and I think it could see lots of traction (I would like to use the service, actually).

Earth Class Mail has assembled an impressive team, with operators from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX). Although, I think that Kenn Dahl, who is a board member, will be key. After all, he is the president of Prime Recognition, which develops sophisticated optical character recognition software.

Interestingly enough, there is also a cleantech angle. That is, Earth Class Mail will recycle your mail.

And, based on the mail I get, I think I could save a few trees.

Finally, if you want to check out other interesting venture capital deals, check out DealProfiles.com.

Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including The Complete M&A Handbook and The Edgar Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements.

I am a web Bedouin -- not the desert dwelling nomadic tribe -- but the new term for an online worker without a fixed office. At various times during the work day (which can be almost any time), I might be found in the local coffee shop, the city park, the library, or my screened-in porch.

The working world is becoming quite a friendly place for us Bedouins. With Wi-Fi, cellular technology, instant messaging and internet-based project management, I am as much in my office while at the pool as at home.

Two new services are making the Bedouin's work life even easier. One, GrandCentral, I wrote about earlier, before it was bought by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). GrandCentral gives me one phone number to distribute to my working contacts. I can route a call placed to this number to any other phone of my choosing, as well as record any conversation on it.