Which Mail Service do you use?

We snowbird and used to use the temporary forward from USPS to get our mail. Every year there was something important that we did not receive because USPS messed up. We now use the Escapees mail forwarding service year round. Did a permanent change to that address (in TX as that is where we will most likely domicile when we go full time next year) and now we get everything that matters, and have them dispose of the junk mail.

Not to hijack this thread but if you are a snowbird staying in one place for a few months does it make sense to have one of the mail services or would just having the Post Office forward your mail to your snowbird address be a better option? I always thought having a mail service like America's Mailbox was geared more for the travelers that go from location to location for extended periods of time. Please educate me!

our local post office will only hold mail for 30-days and they will not selectively forward mail. if we want some mail forwarded all mail from that point forward will be forwarded to that address. so we have all mail forwarded to a private PO Box where they will hold, selectively forward on our request and then resume holding for us. in the past we used a local UPS Store with mixed results. on our next snowbird trip we’ll be using America’s Mailbox in Box Elder, SD.

Every post office has general delivery arrangements. If you know you'll be somewhere for a few weeks, or during a certain time- say late june, you can put in a forwarding request so the mail from there time you leave home, is there when you arrive. We had a parcel shipped to Calgary's downtown post office while we were still rolling through the Dakotas, and it worked fine.

Dakota Post, Sioux Falls,SD

Your Best Address, Sioux Falls SD

We have Escapees

We can have the importantn mail scaned and Emailed to us anywhere we happen to be, or have the mail fowarded or read via phone.

navegator

America's Mailbox,