A mail order home business can be a very lucrative and exciting home business. Mail order giants like LL Bean, Lands End and Sharper image all began as mail order home businesses. There are even mail order programs that allow you to offer thousands of products to your mail order list and not have to stock any inventory because the company will dropship all of your orders directly. This is a great way to begin, but inevitably with growth most mail order companies create their own catalogs and inventory the majority of their own products for quality and service control.