getting your mail while moving around

[jareddustin]

i have been the mailing industry for about 6 years now, i do some mail management systems for a few business and thought i might be able to help out some RV guys.
what do you guys do about your mail now? use temp mail forwarding or a family member?

something I do for a business right now that has employees spread across is the US is that all of their mail gets sent to me, i have a PO Box at the post office i go to everyday for all of my business mailings. they have asked me to open all of their mail, scan it and send it to them, depending on the mail i archive and store it for them, shred it, or send the actual mail piece to the correct person.

I could easily set up a similar system, my first thoughts were to have your mail forwarded to a PO BOX, or even set your mailing address up to the PO BOX if you wished. i could open and scan everything and send them to you in an email or a secure connection with my companies web site. then dispose of or save the mail based on your preference. or another option would be to let me know where you are camping and i can send your accumulated mail to you.

i wanted to ask you guys if this has been an issue at all and if there is a need for something like this.
thank you for your time

Jared Drinville

[BarbaraOK]

C-Bears wrote:
Here are my problems with mail services. I don't want another group of strangers having access to my personal mail. I don't want some stranger opening, scanning, or reading my mail. The only person touching my mail is going to be the mailperson and my son.

Every time you turn on the news you hear about Target or some large retailer having their computer system hacked and everyone's credit card information put at risk.

We limit our debit card and credit card usage in an attempt to cut down on the possibility of identify theft. We sure don't want to give a whole group of strangers access to our mail everyday.

Well no one opens our mail but us. You don't have to use a service that opens, scans & reads your mail. We've been using Escapees for 8 years and are very happy with it. Not any different than having the mail person carrying it - they receive, sort and stick it in your bin until you call/email and ask for your mail to be forwarded to xyz. And I don't want my child opening my mail, nor would I dream of imposing upon her (or any other relative) to have to receive, shred the junk mail, and forward it whenever I wanted. She's going to have to take care of us later when we can't do it for ourselves.

Computer systems being hacked have nothing to do with the mail. In fact, all of our financial dealings are done online.

Barb

[C-Bears]

Here are my problems with mail services. I don't want another group of strangers having access to my personal mail. I don't want some stranger opening, scanning, or reading my mail. The only person touching my mail is going to be the mailperson and my son.

Every time you turn on the news you hear about Target or some large retailer having their computer system hacked and everyone's credit card information put at risk.

We limit our debit card and credit card usage in an attempt to cut down on the possibility of identify theft. We sure don't want to give a whole group of strangers access to our mail everyday.

[arhayes]

jareddustin wrote:

arhayes wrote:
You don't need a mail forwarding service for Amazon or EBay. Just use the address of the RV park you know you'll be at when an order would arrive. While we use Escapee's for our permanent address, shipping orders directly to parks has worked well thus far.

can i ask is there anything about the service you use now that you dont like or wished they offered?

So far nothing to not like. They notify us when registered items are received, otherwise most of eayt we get is routine as we do everything financial on-line. We pay $80 per yr plus the cost of each package they send to us. They've been very responsive and every package requested had been received on a timely basis.

[Dog_Folks]

jareddustin wrote:

arhayes wrote:
You don't need a mail forwarding service for Amazon or EBay. Just use the address of the RV park you know you'll be at when an order would arrive. While we use Escapee's for our permanent address, shipping orders directly to parks has worked well thus far.

can i ask is there anything about the service you use now that you dont like or wished they offered?

The price.

It is getting darn expensive for us.

[jareddustin]

arhayes wrote:
You don't need a mail forwarding service for Amazon or EBay. Just use the address of the RV park you know you'll be at when an order would arrive. While we use Escapee's for our permanent address, shipping orders directly to parks has worked well thus far.

can i ask is there anything about the service you use now that you dont like or wished they offered?

[jareddustin]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Are you a CMRA?

not in the sense of a traditional CMRA like a mail n more or ups retail. my business is not a store front nor do we have delivery to our office. we have a secure building as our main business deals with heathcare and we function under HIPAA guidelines. we also manage return mail (undeliverable mail) for hospitals and started a mail management system when another customer asked us if we could do it for them on top of managing their return mail. i do have a few po boxes at the post office already for my existing customers since i have a system set up i thought it might be possible to offer to full time RV people.

[Old-Biscuit]

Are you a CMRA?

[arhayes]

You don't need a mail forwarding service for Amazon or EBay. Just use the address of the RV park you know you'll be at when an order would arrive. While we use Escapee's for our permanent address, shipping orders directly to parks has worked well thus far.

[Dakota98]

:B I'd rather not be found 😛

Darn, I just realized I couldn't get my Amazon & Ebay purchases :S

[doxiemom11]

There are several services in different states -- google mail forwarding service and you'll get an idea how many there already are.

[Vacay_Wheels]

jareddustin wrote:
they have asked me to open all of their mail, scan it and send it to them, depending on the mail i archive and store it for them, shred it, or send the actual mail piece to the correct person.

That's pretty cool. What are some of the services people use currently which SCAN your mail and store it on a secure server for online review?

[jareddustin]

darsben wrote:
there are services like you propose already.

thank you...i thought there would be. was just an idea that would be really easy to do.

[rv2go]

My daughter and I share the same address. She sorts my mail and forwards whats important to the RV Park where I am staying when I ask for it. Real important mail, she will scan and email.
I wish everyone had it this easy.

[darsben]

there are services like you propose already.