outwest
04-24-2014, 03:11 AM
We are not full timers, but go on the road for anywhere from a month at a time to 3 months at a time.
I've found a few places where you can claim the forwarding company as your legal address, change your address with everyone that needs to send mail to you, and get the forwarding company to send your mail to wherever you are, but I would really like to maintain our residence as address of record and it's such a pain to file change of addresses with everyone (especially banks and merchant account providers).
As I said, when we're gone, we're sometimes gone for 3 months, which means that the post office 30-day hold is out of the question.
I looked at getting a box at a UPS Store and having the USPS temporarily forward mail to there, when out of town, but from what I read the Post Office wont forward mail to a UPS store box because it's technically a business address and they wont forward to business addresses.
I discovered that the USPS has a service where they will forward your mail to an address you specify, once a week, typically on wed, but we move locations every couple of weeks, so I presume that's not an option either (plus, some locations we stay at you cannot receive postal mail, only UPS shipments).
Does anyone have any suggestions/advice for how to handle this? The mail we receive at the house is a combination of personal mail and business mail.
In the past, we had my sister pick up our mail from the box every day and then forward it to wherever we were, (using UPS letter packs) but she has gotten a wild hair, left her husband, and moved away (after racking up over $100,000 in credit card debt without his knowledge). And, her husband travels extensively on business, so he can't pick up our mail for us either (and in fact is now in the same boat in regards to his mail). Hence the need to sort out something else.
There is a neighbor we trust to be responsible, but she's a widow and it's all she can do to maintain her house, yard, and her own personal affairs, so we hate to ask her to take on the burden.
So, does anyone have any ideas or know of a service that can handle this sort of thing - having USPS mail temporarily forwarded to them and having them use UPS to ship the mail to varied addresses on specific dates?
Edit to add - I've looked at a few services, such as usa2me, but the ones I've found all seem to forward your mail using USPS, whereas I need it to be forwarded using UPS. Again, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I've found a few places where you can claim the forwarding company as your legal address, change your address with everyone that needs to send mail to you, and get the forwarding company to send your mail to wherever you are, but I would really like to maintain our residence as address of record and it's such a pain to file change of addresses with everyone (especially banks and merchant account providers).
As I said, when we're gone, we're sometimes gone for 3 months, which means that the post office 30-day hold is out of the question.
I looked at getting a box at a UPS Store and having the USPS temporarily forward mail to there, when out of town, but from what I read the Post Office wont forward mail to a UPS store box because it's technically a business address and they wont forward to business addresses.
I discovered that the USPS has a service where they will forward your mail to an address you specify, once a week, typically on wed, but we move locations every couple of weeks, so I presume that's not an option either (plus, some locations we stay at you cannot receive postal mail, only UPS shipments).
Does anyone have any suggestions/advice for how to handle this? The mail we receive at the house is a combination of personal mail and business mail.
In the past, we had my sister pick up our mail from the box every day and then forward it to wherever we were, (using UPS letter packs) but she has gotten a wild hair, left her husband, and moved away (after racking up over $100,000 in credit card debt without his knowledge). And, her husband travels extensively on business, so he can't pick up our mail for us either (and in fact is now in the same boat in regards to his mail). Hence the need to sort out something else.
There is a neighbor we trust to be responsible, but she's a widow and it's all she can do to maintain her house, yard, and her own personal affairs, so we hate to ask her to take on the burden.
So, does anyone have any ideas or know of a service that can handle this sort of thing - having USPS mail temporarily forwarded to them and having them use UPS to ship the mail to varied addresses on specific dates?
Edit to add - I've looked at a few services, such as usa2me, but the ones I've found all seem to forward your mail using USPS, whereas I need it to be forwarded using UPS. Again, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.