Canadian Mail Forwarding
I am curious as to how other Canadian Snowbirds are receiving their mail while away in the United States. We stay in Florida for six months. As it exists now I get my neighbor to forward my mail in s...
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Gruffy wrote:
Can't be rid of Canada Post as long as the government uses them. CPP and OAS T4P's arrive in the mail as do drivers licenses. We spend about $300.00 a year for mail forwarding.
They routinely screw it up and post office numbers are unlisted.... you must call Ottawa. Fortunately we have a personal relationship with a local postal worker who can sort stuff out for us.
If the rest of the world got online I would abandon Canada Post immediately... and trust me ... stay far far away from E-post.
Hmmmm..... I wonder if we changed our mail address for the "hard to turn around ones" like Government CPP, OAS, My Pension T4 to my Florida address if that would work.
The stuff from the ones I need for Income Tax come when I am in Florida like February, March & we leave around April 15th. As I get USPS to forward my mail to Canada when we go home I would get an extraneous ones during the time home like April 15th to Oct 21st.
Really pretty well everything works great electronically like for example Blue Cross Dental work can be paid by Visa & reimbursed thru the internet. I even pay my snow clearing home when necessary by email for $1.50 This might be a way to do it. It sure would weed out sending packets via my neighbor and USPS forwarding is free.
Drivers license can be renewed when home and the Vehicle Registration stickers can be sent to Florida (I do that now) or have them expire when in Canada.
