SteveC

I've just shipped all my photos to scancafe http://www.scancafe.com/

I had about 200 of the things sitting waiting for me to scan them. I see absolutely no point in paper photos, I just want them all scanned and up on flickr then I'll shred most of them. Scancafe's pretty cheap and you only pay for what you keep. They do some basic color balancing and other stuff to make your color photos look good, and I have a bunch that are too bright or too dark. There are tons of add ons which I really like - you can pay a bit more for higher resolution, or have an expert fix up really screwed photos. The scan just about anything, too.

The shipping process is really cool and integrated with UPS, then you have a neat progress meter to show you where your prints are in the order process, if UPS has them or they're being scanned, or whatever.

Downsides: it can take a while. Looks like it will be about a month before I get my scans. There should be an option to pay more for faster service and jump the queue. Second, they ship you a CD or DVD... and that feels like 2003 or something. I'd prefer to pay less and just download them, and I'd also like the option for them to be securely destroyed after scanning rather than having them all shipped back to me.

UPS tracking is so-so:

Why isn't that a map? Bonus points for animating it. Double bonus points if someone makes a bookmarklet or something to magically turn it in to a map.