getting your mail while moving around

C-Bears wrote:

BarbaraOK wrote:

C-Bears wrote:
Good one monkey44!!!!! To me having some mail service handle your mail is just asking for trouble. I mean, its not like those folks are paid $25.00 an hour. I am sure they will hire anyone at those places.

It would be like if there was a rash of break-ins around your neighborhood and you decided to put a lock on your screen door to keep from being victimized.

You just insult a large number of people who work very hard and do a good job. And you base it on what? No, they don't hire just anyone, at least Escapees doesn't. Of course we've only been using Escapees for 8 years and they have only been in business for something like 30 yrs, so obviously they are a fly by night outfit.

And no one has ever heard of a US Post Office mail carrier who mishandled mail?

Barb

So they have been around for 30 years, the USPS has been around for just under 239 years and they still have employees arrested for ripping off mail.

It is just my opinion that you are less secure by allowing two groups to handle your mail (USPS and Paid Mail Service).

It is also my opinion that most full timers travel to S. Dakota or some other state and sign up for mail services and transfer their RV registrations there because it is much cheaper than paying their annual RV registration fees in their home states. It usually has nothing to do with not wanting to be a burden on their children or other family members by asking them to help with mail.

Everyone has to make their own decisions on how to handle a lot of different issues when full timing. What works for some just doesn't work for others.

C-Bears, you certainly are entitled to your opinion and no one is suggesting that you change your thought process or way of doing business. My mail has gone through Escapees for 5 or 6 years with nary a hitch. There is no financial mail since that is all taken care of online, choose your poison :) Mostly what I get is magazines I subscribe to that I would rather not read online. I pay Escapees a bit extra ($105 v $80 per year) to discard all 3rd class mail so I don't have to pay for forwarding it.

My reason for choosing a service in Texas is there is no income tax as of now and the Estate tax comes to net zero compared to NY. Vehicle registration and insurance are both greater than in NY. We just voted in TX, absentee where my vote is about as useless as it is in NY, just the other way :(

When I had an office and an assistant I forwarded my mail to the office and my assistant opened and scanned the "important" stuff and sent us a bundle when I knew where I would be. Retired, no office and no assistant.