Mail Forwarding and Home Base

We've used the Escapees RV Club for 18 years for our mail forwarding and they are great. They currently have a membership deal through October as part of their 35th year in business.

Full-timers mainly, but not solely, are domiciled in Texas, Florida or South Dakota. If you need to purchase medical insurance South Dakota has some problems on that. You need a good PPO plan to travel and full-time.

There is no one state to domicile that fits everyone. You need to do research on your tax issues, medical, registrations, etc. What may be good for one won't necessarily be good for you.

We are not retired but have used travelingmailbox.com for business and personal mail. Inexpensive and very reliable high tech system.

cemmett wrote:
OK, here are two more questions to help us narrow down some of our searching. What have been some of the pluses and minuses of mail forwarding services and how to choose a home base state/city? My guess is you already active full-timers have resolved a lot of these two issues. Thanks again for all your input. Our last inquiry yielded a lot of great info.

Before you decide to find a mail forwarding service, first thing to do
is to get rid of most of your snail-mail... Start doing this couple months before you start fulltime...

Most can be handled online.. Banking, Insurance, even taxes can be handled online..

You will be surprised just how much less mail you really need when you fulltime..

I used Alternative Resources in Sioux Falls, SD for many years.

X2 Great company

A company that was recently sold, changed the company name and will be moving you to a new address soon, if you haven't heard.
At least that's what my friends who use them were recently notified

cemmett, which state to choose is a personal choice based on matching your individual needs/wants/priorites etc to the potential states. We all have slightly different needs, wants & priorities. Each of the 3 most popular fulltimer states, SD, Fl, Tx have slightly different laws, taxes, requirements.
I chose SD as my domicile for a variety of reasons, but many others have selected Tx or Fla for their reasons. We can't say which is the best for you.
After selecting SD, I chose Americas Mailbox and after 7 yrs, I'm still very happy with both those choices.

DownTheAvenue wrote:
I used Alternative Resources in Sioux Falls, SD for many years. They were flawless with my mail, but better yet, they had referrals to a bank who understood fulltiming so that problem was already solved for me. They had another referral to an attorney who also understood full timing so I could legally establish my residency, and they were next door to the drivers license place, so that was equally painless.

X2 Great company

Any recommendations for someone who is not a full-timer, but needs a mail service as they plan to be on the road for several months at a stretch? That will be out situation next year after retiring in April. We won't need to establish a new 'home base', but will need to have access to our mail while on the road. Is there any one provider that is better than another, or for that matter, any provider that we should stay away from? Any thoughts, suggestions, whatever would be much appreciated.

2010Liberty wrote:
We use http://mydakotaaddress.com/ in Madison, SD.

We use that as well. I won't say one state (SD,FL,TX)is better than another each person has different needs which anyone of those states may or may not address. We have family up north though not in SD so we travel near enough and often enough that location is no problem when licence renew rolls around. It may just be my Midwest mentality that selected SD over the other fulltimer friendly states.

We use http://mydakotaaddress.com/ in Madison, SD.

I used Alternative Resources in Sioux Falls, SD for many years. They were flawless with my mail, but better yet, they had referrals to a bank who understood fulltiming so that problem was already solved for me. They had another referral to an attorney who also understood fulltiming so I could legally establish my residency, and they were next door to the drivers license place, so that was equally painless.