Which one do you use? We're not full-timing, just cutting out for the winter. I've looked at the FMCA service, but it appears to be set up for full-timers (no S&B).Will the USPS just hold mail until you tell them where to send it?If you use a service, do you actually change your address for your mail or do you have the USPS forward it for 6 months?I'm getting most all the bills set up with online banking, but there's still a lot of mail (most of it junk) in the box every day.

USPS will hold mail for up to 30 days for a regular mail hold. We use the Escapees mail services (based in Livingston, TX). When we hit the road full-time next month, we'll just call or email to tell them where we're going to be for a few weeks (or a month or two) and they'll forward the mail. You can choose what classes of mail and we'll just have first class forwarded.

As for stopping the junk mail, I've managed to stop almost all of ours by simply calling the 800 phone #s on it. You have to do this several months in advance as most of the junk mail is printed up to three months in advance and already sitting on pallets to go the Post Office at the correct date.Sometimes junk mailers don't put a phone # on their junk and you have to find it on the internet, but most mailing do have a phone #.The only mail I haven't been able to stop is when someone like a local pizza shop has the Post Office send out their junk mail telling them to mail it to everyone in the surrounding zip code. Since there's no actual mailing list and the Post Office's computer systems are so out of date, they have no way of blocking specific addresses.Bill

Our USPS office will hold our mail for up to 3 months with permission from the Postmaster. We also have a good friend that will pick ours up at the post office for us. If you have a good friend or a relative in your area, that is an option that works for us.

I have a box at the UPS Store. Whenever I stop somewhere for awhile they box up whatever they have and send it to me.

We use escapees with great success.

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Trackrig
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Jul 26, 2015
As for stopping the junk mail, I've managed to stop almost all of ours by simply calling the 800 phone #s on it. You have to do this several months in advance as most of the junk mail is printed up to three months in advance and already sitting on pallets to go the Post Office at the correct date.

Sometimes junk mailers don't put a phone # on their junk and you have to find it on the internet, but most mailing do have a phone #.

The only mail I haven't been able to stop is when someone like a local pizza shop has the Post Office send out their junk mail telling them to mail it to everyone in the surrounding zip code. Since there's no actual mailing list and the Post Office's computer systems are so out of date, they have no way of blocking specific addresses.

Bill
Second_Chance
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Jul 26, 2015
USPS will hold mail for up to 30 days for a regular mail hold. We use the Escapees mail services (based in Livingston, TX). When we hit the road full-time next month, we'll just call or email to tell them where we're going to be for a few weeks (or a month or two) and they'll forward the mail. You can choose what classes of mail and we'll just have first class forwarded.

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