AIM Mail Center

AIM Mail Center is a neighborhood-focused pack-and-ship and business services concept that offers everyday shipping, mailbox rental, printing, and basic office support for local residents and small businesses. Typical locations handle domestic and international parcel shipping through major carriers, along with mailboxes and virtual addresses, packaging supplies, copying and printing, notary, fax, and similar convenience services that support home-based businesses and small firms.

The brand grew out of the broader wave of U.S. retail mailbox and shipping stores that took hold in the 1980s and 1990s, although a precise founding year for AIM Mail Center is not clearly documented in current public filings. Historically, AIM operated as a franchise system, with independently owned stores using the AIM Mail Center name in multiple U.S. markets. These stores usually occupied small inline spaces in neighborhood and community centers, fitting into everyday retail lineups alongside other service and convenience tenants.

A notable turning point came in the mid‑2010s, when AIM Mail Center became part of Annex Brands, Inc., a California-based franchisor that owns a family of packing, shipping, and business services brands, including PostalAnnex+, Pak Mail, Navis Pack & Ship, and Handle With Care Packaging Store. Under Annex Brands, AIM locations were gradually repositioned as the parent streamlined overlapping banners and concentrated on a smaller set of core concepts. Over the last five years in particular, Annex Brands has focused new growth and corporate marketing on PostalAnnex+, Pak Mail, and other key brands, while the AIM name has receded from franchise recruiting materials, store locators, and social media.

As of December 2025, publicly available Annex Brands tools and corporate channels do not maintain a dedicated AIM Mail Center store list or promote AIM as an active franchise offering, and there is no reliable public count of AIM-branded locations. The brand now functions as a legacy or transitional banner within the Annex Brands portfolio. Many former AIM sites appear to have been converted, rebranded, or absorbed into other Annex concepts rather than expanded as a stand-alone chain.

For landlords, brokers, and developers, AIM Mail Center is best understood today as part of the broader Annex Brands ecosystem in small-box service retail. Any remaining AIM-branded stores reflect a format and operating model that Annex still uses across its portfolio: compact, neighborhood-oriented units that drive regular traffic from local residents and small businesses. In practice, new real estate decisions tied to these locations are typically addressed through Annex Brands’ centralized teams, often with an eye toward rebranding into one of the parent’s primary banners rather than rolling out additional AIM Mail Center sites.