Forwarding Mail/Snowbird
We will be gone for 3 months. We would like others solution to what is the best way to have mail forwarded.
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Here's what I have done the last 2 years while snow birding, and it has worked fine for me.
Called UPS store at my destination a couple weeks before leaving home and setup a mailbox. Can't finalize or pay for it until I arrive and show ID's per law, but I get my box number.
Go online and setup temporary forwarding to UPS Store box # with US Post Office. Make effective date 2 days before leaving to make sure nothing is arriving at home.
Arrive at destination and finalize setting up box with UPS Store. It always takes about 7 days before first mail from home starts arriving.
I should add my CG doesn't accept any mail for campers. I'm lucky because this UPS Store is 5 minutes from my CG. If I recall the total cost for the box was about $120 for 6 months. No cost for US Postal forwarding.
The store accepts packages too big for the box without charge and sends an email.
Called UPS store at my destination a couple weeks before leaving home and setup a mailbox. Can't finalize or pay for it until I arrive and show ID's per law, but I get my box number.
Go online and setup temporary forwarding to UPS Store box # with US Post Office. Make effective date 2 days before leaving to make sure nothing is arriving at home.
Arrive at destination and finalize setting up box with UPS Store. It always takes about 7 days before first mail from home starts arriving.
I should add my CG doesn't accept any mail for campers. I'm lucky because this UPS Store is 5 minutes from my CG. If I recall the total cost for the box was about $120 for 6 months. No cost for US Postal forwarding.
The store accepts packages too big for the box without charge and sends an email.
