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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Canuck Travellers wrote:
Thanks, we get USPS to forward our mail from Florida back home....no charge & no problems. I guess we Canadians brag about our Medical Care but our Postal System is nothing to brag about just my Humble Opinion! We have been here in South Florida for 13 years, no problems of any kind with USPS, mail on Saturday, filter junk out before forwarding to Canada, nice USPS Reps, what's not to like about USPS! Oh & rates are much better than Canadian even with the Canadian dollar slipping.
I didn't know USPS would forward mail to Canada for no charge. Is there a maximum time that they'll do that? We're in Canada from about the beginning of April to mid to late November...this year we might be later than that getting back to the U.S. in the fall. We had talked to them a couple of years ago about forwarding mail to our Canadian address, and at that time it didn't look like it could be done. I've gone online and had them hold mail when we returned to Canada for Christmas one year, but there's a 30 day maximum to do it that way.
This is our third winter here, and so far we've just put a note in the post office box saying we're away until further notice. We don't get much first class mail here anyway, but we've just made sure that anything we'll need in the summer months gets sent to our Canadian address. (We have provided our Canadian address to anyone in the U.S. who might need to send us mail in the summer months.)
Re the OP's original question (sorry to sidetrack), we have our mail held at our Canadian post office. Our postmaster said there is supposed to be a charge for that, but she hasn't charged us yet. This year she might if there's a huge pile. We pick up our mail at our post office anyway, so it just stays there until we get back. We pay our bills online. We're trying to figure out a way of dealing with income tax returns for subsequent years, as we would like to start staying until the end of April. So far, there are still some info slips that only come by snail mail, but hopefully that will change.
