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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We tried to do some mail forwarding this winter and it didn't work well for us. We attempted to get a P.O. box at the USPS in Borrego Springs California and were told that we needed to bring a house deed to get one! Who carries a house deed with you while on the road? Apparently there are some other documents that would suffice to get a P.O. box but no suggestions were offered. We heard that the post mistress had subsequently been fired because of the large number of complaints from the locals.
We have a house checker that collects the mail for us, next winter we will have her send all "brown envelopes" and other official looking stuff to our daughter back home who will open and scan the docs and send them to us electronically. That will help.
All of this effort results from a (legitimate) call from CRA last winter when we were in Tucson (home phone forwarded) asking to make arrangements to pay $8,000 we owed them from a re-assessment of the previous year's tax filing. Turns out a T-slip from an employer didn't make it through to CRA and when you file electronically they don't see your copy of the T-slip either. They had mailed the re-assessment to me but it wasn't acted upon, was sitting in the mail pile awaiting our return.
We have a house checker that collects the mail for us, next winter we will have her send all "brown envelopes" and other official looking stuff to our daughter back home who will open and scan the docs and send them to us electronically. That will help.
All of this effort results from a (legitimate) call from CRA last winter when we were in Tucson (home phone forwarded) asking to make arrangements to pay $8,000 we owed them from a re-assessment of the previous year's tax filing. Turns out a T-slip from an employer didn't make it through to CRA and when you file electronically they don't see your copy of the T-slip either. They had mailed the re-assessment to me but it wasn't acted upon, was sitting in the mail pile awaiting our return.
