Mail Hold--What do you do?

We get our friends to pick it up. The last time we went to Alaska was 5 Months. We get theirs when they are away.

Talk to your mail carrier not the Postmaster, the carrier may do it for you.

travelzoo wrote:
Talk to your mail carrier not the Postmaster, the carrier may do it for you.

we did this and carrier said no problem he would hold as long as needed only problem was they changed his route after we left and new carrier only did the thirty days. good thing we have a large locked mail box.

You can also do a 'temporary' change of address.

My MIL does that and has it sent from Florida to NY. She stops when passing through a couple of times a summer and picks up the mail.

She has done this for 6 month period.

Before we switched to a more permanent RV oriented forwarding service, we had our mail forwarded to our daughter for 2 or 3 months at a time while we traveled. She would look it over and alert us to anything that might require more immediate attention than waiting for our return.

Son gets mail on long trips. They know him. He has a checkbook to pay bills. The 30 days re-starts when he picks up the mail. Kinda like family round here.

Our postmaster said the same thing when we went for 6 weeks, he'd hold it the extra 2 weeks. When we got home we found the mail had restarted after 30 days, so much for the postmaster.

Headed out for 8 weeks come Sept, was thinking of holding it for 30, then have the neighbor pick it up and hold it again as you can do it online. I haven't checked to see if it's legit yet.

I have not done this but several people I know have stopped their mail for 30 days, then sent in another card to hold it for another 30 days. They were told the card / hold request was only good for 30 days at a time so they sent in the second card. Worked for them.

I have a sweet heart of a carrier. she held it until we got home then brought it all out to the house for us.

You can put in your hold online, it works great. Put in a hold for about half the time and get someone to pick it up. Then put in another hold.