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vandave
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Dec 08, 2014

Getting for different months.

Finally retired in June and we have an rv lot rented for January and February in the panhandle. Two different rv parks. We live in Ohio and I'm asking for ideas on how we get our mail sent to Florida. This is our first time being away from home for this long. Thanks for ideas.
  • rv2go wrote:
    Have the mail forwarded to a family member or trusted friend. They in turn can sort out the junk and send you the important mail ever couple weeks or as needed.
    We are fulltime and this is how we do it.


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    Works for me, I have all of my bills delivered electronically via email. I set my banking up to use 'Bill Pay' on line. I talk to my daughter about my mail every three weeks or so and she pulls and opens any important appearing and calls me for instructions.
  • we tried the post office change of address and it never worked well. Now a family member checks our mail and forwards when we tell her to. Haven't used the USPS mail forwarding service but that might work. We used a service in Crestview FL www.myrvmail.com but you have to do a change of address and it's a bit more complicated.
  • I think the postal service will let you fill out two different mail forwarding forms with the dates filled in that you wish for mail to be forwarded to each place. Check with your local postmaster.
  • I use a UPS Mailbox. They will forward the Mail wherever you want.
  • We do so little by mail anymore that most our mail is just junk - we do banking and bill paying via the internet. We have the local post office hold the mail, and our son or one of our neighbors is authorized to go pick it up once a week or so. They go through it, let us know if there is anything that looks important, the email us if there is something we need to know about. Sometimes they scan it and email it to us, other times they just stick it in a big envelope and forward it to us ....
  • Have the mail forwarded to a family member or trusted friend. They in turn can sort out the junk and send you the important mail ever couple weeks or as needed.
    We are fulltime and this is how we do it.
  • you could just forward it via the post office. However two different parks complicate that. possibly go to the post office and discuss with them and maybe you can fill out two different forwarding cards.